The Last of the Tsars: Nicholas II and the Russian Revolution (Repost)

The distinguished historian of revolutionary Russia, Robert Service brings a profound understanding of the period and a forensic examination of official and personal records to this study of Nicholas IIs life and thought in the 16 months after the February 1917 Revolution and his abdication. The book examines the political environments of the Tsars places of detention, Irkutsk, Tobolsk and Ekaterinberg; his thinking on Russia and his own role; and the circumstances of the Romanov familys execution in July 1918.