The first major new history of the Russian Revolution in a decade combines cutting-edge scholarship and a fast-paced narrative to shed new light on a great turning point of the twentieth century
Sean McMeekin is Professor of History at Bard College, New York. For some years he taught at Bilkent University, Istanbul. His books include the highly successful The Berlin-Baghdad Express (Penguin), The Russian Origins of the First World War and July 1914 (Icon).
Praise for July 1914:
'Sean McMeekin's chronicle of these weeks in July 1914: Countdown
to War is almost impossible to put down ... [McMeekin] delivers a
punchy and riveting narrative of high politics and diplomacy over
the five weeks after Sarajevo, more or less day by day, dwelling on
small groups of decision-makers in and between the various
capitals, and their interactions, by turns measured, perplexed,
cordial, artful, angry, even tearful
*New York Review of Books*
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