Nicholas II: Twilight of the Empire. by Lieven, Dominic - 1994

New York.: St. Martin's Press.. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1994. Hardcover. 031210510X . 8vo - 23.5 x 15.5 cm.; xii - 292 pp. Blue paper over boards with gilt lettering on the spine. First published in the UK in 1993, this is the first printng of the US edition. Illustrated with 16 pages of black and white photographs. Twenty-one pages of notes followed by a 9 page index. From the dust jacket: "Drawning on his fifteen year study of Imperial Russia and using archival material and other sources all over the world, Dominic Lieven shows that the downfall of both the Imperial and Soviet regimes fit into a pattern of ongoing Russian history, one that bears close scrutiny if we are to understand the turmoil of the post-Cold War period." .