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This is history with a heartbeat, and it could not be more engrossing.\"--\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eForeign Affairs \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWorld War I and the Russian Revolution together shaped the twentieth century in profound ways. In \u003ci\u003eThe End of Tsarist Russia, \u003c\/i\u003e acclaimed scholar Dominic Lieven connects for the first time the two events, providing both a history of the First World War's origins from a Russian perspective and an international history of why the revolution happened. \u003cp\u003eBased on exhaustive work in seven Russian archives as well as many non-Russian sources, Dominic Lieven's work is about far more than just Russia. By placing the crisis of empire at its core, Lieven links World War I to the sweep of twentieth-century global history. 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