The Romanov Empire: Autocracy and Opposition

by Alan Wood

Book Overview

The Russian dynasty of the Romanov tsars began in 1613 during an era of intense civil strife with the coronation of Mikhail Fedorivch Romanov and was destroyed in the revolutionary turmoil of 1917.

In the intervening three centuries the relatively small, land-locked kingdom of Muscovy grew into the world's largest land empire. Yet size was no protection for the dynasty, and throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries a conflicting...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0340761881
• ISBN13: 9780340761885
• Release Date: April 2007
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 444 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.5" x 8.5"