Lyandres, Semion, 1959-
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013.
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- Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-292) and index.
- I: The story of the interviews — The quest for the lost oral histories of the February Revolution — M.A. Polievktov and the first oral histories of the February Revolution — II. The interviews — Boris Aleksandrovich Engel’gardt — Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Chikolini — Petr Vasil’evich Gerasimov — Mikhail Vladimirovich Rodzianko — Lev Stepanovich Tugan-Baranovskii — Nikolai Vissarionovich Nekrasov — Nikolai Semenovich Chkheidze — Matvei Ivanovich Skobelev — Aleksandr Fedorovich Kerenskii — Mikhail Ivanovich Tereshchenko — The interviews: an interpretation.
- The Fall of Tsarism reveals to the world for the first time a unique selection of interviews with leading participants in the February Revolution in Petrograd, sources that have been hidden for most of a century. Focusing on the pivotal period between the outbreak of the popular uprising on 27 February 1917 and the fall of the Russian monarchy five days later, these gripping, plain-spoken testimonies take the reader directly to the revolutionary headquarters inside the Tauride Palace. The interviews present wide-ranging perspectives on the events, politics, and personalities of the February Days from a diverse group of key political figures as well as lesser-known activists, including: M.V. Rodzianko, the conservative president of the last Imperial Duma P.V. Gerasimov, the liberal Duma deputy N.S. Chkheidze, leading Menshevik and the first chairman of the Petrograd Soviet A.F. Kerenskii, the future revolutionary premier and M.I. Tereshchenko, the ‘repentant capitalist’ and Provisional Government minister. Recorded between 1 May and 7 June 1917, months before the Bolshevik takeover–at a time when the outcome of the revolution was far from obvious–the interviews are free of any post-1917 hindsight and represent the most significant contemporary testimony on the overthrow of Europe’s last old regime. –Publisher’s description.
Subjects:
- Russia — History — February Revolution, 1917.
- Soviet Union — History — Revolution, 1917-1921 — Personal narratives.
- Revolution (Soviet Union : 1917-1921) fast (OCoLC)fst01907572
- 1917 – 1921 fast
- History. fast (OCoLC)fst01411628
- Personal narratives. fast (OCoLC)fst01423843
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