Towards The Flame: Empire, War, and the End of Tsarist Russia
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Towards The Flame: Empire, War, and the End of Tsarist Russia

by Dominic Lieven
ISBN 9781846143816 £20.00 08 Jan 2016
Allen Lane, an imprint of Penguin Books , London (2015)
This is ostensibly a work on how Russia went to war in 1914, and the immediate consequences for the country, leading to the years of communist rule. But it also offers a radically different view of why Europe descended into disaster, which echoes in world history to the present day.