{"product_id":"1252952","title":"Nicholas II: the Last of the Tsars by Marc Ferro","description":"For this important new biography, Ferro has searched extensively in Russian archives to illuminate Nicholas's character. What emerges is a vivid portrait of a reluctant leader, a young man forced by the death of his father into a role for which he was ill-equipped. A conformist and traditionalist, Nicholas admired the order, ritual, and ceremony identified with the intangible grandeur of autocracy, and he hated everything that might shake that autocracy--the intelligentsia, the Jews, the religious sects. His reign, as Ferro documents, was one of continual trouble: a humiliating war with Japan; the 1905 revolution that forced Nicholas to accept a constitutional assembly, the Duma; the international crisis of 1914, leading to World War I; and finally the Revolution of 1917, forcing his abdication. This 1993 Oxford University Press Hardback is in \u003cb\u003e very good condition\u003c\/b\u003e. DJ. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eISBN: 9780195081923 SKU: 1252952 \u003ci\u003eThis image is of the actual book.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48527069970709,"sku":"1252952","price":13.5,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0023\/2695\/4036\/files\/1252952.jpg?v=1725850865","url":"https:\/\/bookhaven.live\/products\/1252952","provider":"Book Haven","version":"1.0","type":"link"}