In this episode, online Master’s student Miranda Edwards joins Dr. Manamee Guha to talk more about Nicholas II and World War I. How much did his autocratic ideals clash with revolutionaries who were looking for large-scale reforms? Miranda also discusses the role Nicholas II’s wife Alexandra Feodorovna and her ally Rasputin played in pushing Russia into the throes of World War I.
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Selected Bibliography:
Gilliard, Pierre. Thirteen Years at the Russian Court. Translated by F. Appleby Holt. New York, NY: George H. Doran & Co., 1987.
Massie, Robert K. Nicholas and Alexandra. New York, NY: Atheneum, 1968.
Price, Morgan Philips. Dispatches from the Revolution: Russia, 1916-1918. Edited by Tania Rose. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1998.
Radzinsky, Edvard. The Last Tsar: The Life and Death of Nicholas II. Translated by Marian Schwartz. New York, NY: Doubleday, 1992.
Romanov, Alexandra, Nicholas II Romanov, and Bernard Pares. Letters of the Tsaritsa to the Tsar, 1914-1916. Westport, CT: Hyperion, 1987.
Service, Robert. The Last of the Tsars: Nicholas II and the Russian Revolution. London: Macmillan, 2017.
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