Buch, Englisch, 196 Seiten, Format (B × H): 125 mm x 190 mm, Gewicht: 237 g
Tsars, Soviets, and Rebirth (Pocketbook Edition)
Buch, Englisch, 196 Seiten, Format (B × H): 125 mm x 190 mm, Gewicht: 237 g
ISBN: 978-3-565-08400-5
Verlag: epubli
Russia's saga kicks off in Kievan fogs where Varangian axes carved principalities from birch woods, Rurik's kin bartering furs for Byzantine gold while Mongols' Golden Horde saddled the steppe in 1237, their khans squeezing tribute from frozen rivers till Ivan III snapped the yoke in '80. Muscovy's onion domes spiked higher, tsars like Ivan the Terrible riding black-clad terror through boyar halls, his oprichniki dogs nipping at heels in a frenzy that left Moscow's streets slick with noble blood. It was a brew of Orthodox chants and onion-soup intrigue, where Romanovs rose from Time of Troubles' ashes, Peter the Great hacking beards and windows to drag the bear west amid Baltic salt spray.
Empire bloated next: Catherine's mustache outfoxing Voltaire's letters, Siberian chains rattling with serf sweat while Decembrists dreamed of constitutions in snowbound squares. Crimea's '54 gift to Ukraine hid Bolshevik blueprints, Lenin's train rumbling from Swiss exile to topple the tsar in '17's red October whirl, civil war chewing villages like wolves on winter bones. Stalin's mustache marched millions to gulag gravel pits, purges pruning the party till the Great Patriotic War's '41 thunder turned Stalingrad to rubble roasts, the Motherland's maw swallowing Nazis whole.
Cold War's curtain clanged shut: Khrushchev's shoe-banging at the UN, Brezhnev's brows furrowing over Afghan quagmires, till Gorbachev's glasnost cracked the concrete, '91's putsch paving Putin's path from KGB shadows to Kremlin thrones. Oligarch yachts bob on Neva waves while dissident whispers echo in Moscow basements. Russia's no tidy troika—it's a babushka doll of brutality and ballets, proving a frozen fringe can freeze the world's breath.
