Conspiracy Against The Tsar
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
In the shadow of imperial Russia, where absolute power and aristocratic rebellion collided with explosive consequences, Nathan Eidelman's Conspiracy Against the Tsar chronicles one of history's most audacious acts of political defiance — the Decembrist uprising of 1825. The book reconstructs the world of the Russian nobility who, inspired by Enlightenment ideals and their exposure to revolutionary Europe during the Napoleonic Wars, dared to challenge the autocratic foundations of the Romanov dynasty in an ill-fated coup that would send shockwaves through the empire for generations. Eidelman, one of the Soviet Union's most celebrated historians and biographers, brings a rare combination of rigorous scholarship and vivid narrative to bear on this pivotal moment in Russian history, illuminating the ideological fault lines, personal sacrifices, and tragic miscalculations that sealed the conspirators' fate. His writing argues that the Decembrists were not merely rebels but proto-revolutionaries whose legacy laid the intellectual groundwork for the upheavals that would ultimately transform Russia a century later. A masterful blend of political history and human drama, this work leaves the reader asking: what truly separates a traitor from a visionary?
Author: N. Eidelman
Format: Hardback
Published: 1985, Progress Publishers
Genre: European history
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
In the shadow of imperial Russia, where absolute power and aristocratic rebellion collided with explosive consequences, Nathan Eidelman's Conspiracy Against the Tsar chronicles one of history's most audacious acts of political defiance — the Decembrist uprising of 1825. The book reconstructs the world of the Russian nobility who, inspired by Enlightenment ideals and their exposure to revolutionary Europe during the Napoleonic Wars, dared to challenge the autocratic foundations of the Romanov dynasty in an ill-fated coup that would send shockwaves through the empire for generations. Eidelman, one of the Soviet Union's most celebrated historians and biographers, brings a rare combination of rigorous scholarship and vivid narrative to bear on this pivotal moment in Russian history, illuminating the ideological fault lines, personal sacrifices, and tragic miscalculations that sealed the conspirators' fate. His writing argues that the Decembrists were not merely rebels but proto-revolutionaries whose legacy laid the intellectual groundwork for the upheavals that would ultimately transform Russia a century later. A masterful blend of political history and human drama, this work leaves the reader asking: what truly separates a traitor from a visionary?