Nicholas and Alexandra
by Robert K. Massie
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Author: Robert K. MassieEdition: Mass Market Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1985-02-01
ISBN: 0440363586
Number of pages: 624
Publisher: Laurel
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Book Review: Historical Context as Needed Today
Summary: 5 Stars
This book is not just an excellent biography of Tsar Nicholas but provides both a valuable historical insight into past events which provide understanding of recent events this past decade. Bosnia/Sarajevo almost became a recent flashpoint for a war with Russia; the book reveals Austria-Hungary with German backing annexed Bosnia in 1908 with Germany forcing the Tsar/Serbia to recognize this annexation. Also, Imperial Germany had second thoughts on backing Lenin/Trotsky and tried to bring the Tsar back to Moscow to ratify the Brest-Litovsk Treaty, and essentially make him a puppet regime of Berlin. Massie reveals this intrigue and how it failed leaving a reader as myself with the conclusion Germany created a Frankenstein in smuggling Lenin into Russia to pursue its war aims.On another level Massie brings home to the reader how much personal family matters intrude into important matters of statecraft, appointments to high office, and military matters. This is a book which Russian officials today should read if they hope to bring sanity back to their dying country whose death-rate far exceeds its birth-rate. In our inter-dependent world those who despair of the future can do serious harm to others as well as to themselves. And all peoples can learn from the travails and circumstances of others.
No doubt that Robert K Massie has made an important contribution to our understanding of the past which heavily influences contemporary society today. As I write this the United Nations Security Council stands challenged by U.S. President George W. Bush to inspect and disarm Iraq of all weapons of mass destruction. The world stands at a moment of decision and even faces the possibility of nuclear war should military action against Baghdad trigger a response and counter-response leading to regional destabilization and a firestorm. Russia particularly must anguish through a difficult decision process and has suffered under a closed-thought political system where information readily available to Westerners, as in this book, has not entered into the Russian market-place of ideas.I thus feel compelled to urge others to get this book into Russian officialdom by every creative measure.
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Massie offers a moving, tragic, and unforgettable account of the extraordinary Imperial dynasty of Tsar Nicholas II, his doomed empire, and a revolution that would inexorably change the world forever. "A larger than life drama."--Saturday Review. Photo insert.Historical Books
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