Table of Contents

Nicholas II as Tsarevich
The New Autocrat
Reform and Reaction
Peace and Imperialism
War with Japan
Revolution: The Dress Rehearsal
The Duma Experiment
The Stolypin Era
Rasputin and his Predecessors
A Final Reprieve
Approaching the Great War
The Politics of Armageddon
The Collapse of the Monarchy
The Tragic Odyssey of Citizen Romanov
Nicholas and the Fate of Imperial Russia
Reference Notes
Bibliography
Index

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A study of the life of Nicholas II of Russia.

About the Author

ROBERT D. WARTH is Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Kentucky.

Reviews

?Warth's study has a number of strengths. He is particularly good describing the psychological burdens that bedeviled Nicholas II as tsar, his distaste for official life (especially his ministers), his devotion to duty, his closed-mindedness regarding reform, his unwillingness to acknowlege past mistakes, his sense of fatalism and superstitiousness, and his underlying feelings of inadequacy as Alexander III's son and autocrat of all the Russias.?-The Russian Review

"Warth's study has a number of strengths. He is particularly good describing the psychological burdens that bedeviled Nicholas II as tsar, his distaste for official life (especially his ministers), his devotion to duty, his closed-mindedness regarding reform, his unwillingness to acknowlege past mistakes, his sense of fatalism and superstitiousness, and his underlying feelings of inadequacy as Alexander III's son and autocrat of all the Russias."-The Russian Review