Dominic Lieven, Author . Viking $34.95 (617p) ISBN 978-0-670-02157-4
Lieven, professor of history at the London School of Economics, uses Russian archives as the basis for this seminal reinterpretation of Napoleon’s defeat in 1812-1814. Russia’s leaders cleverly engaged Napoleon in a kind of drawn-out...
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Dominic Lieven, Author St. Martin's Griffin $16.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-312-14379-4
British political historian Lieven examines Nicholas and the disintegration of the monarchy in light of the recent collapse of the Soviet system. (July)
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Dominic Lieven, Author St. Martin's Press $24 (292p) ISBN 978-0-312-10510-5
Lieven, a specialist on Imperial Russia who teaches at the London School of Economics, offers a sympathetic but not altogether persuasive rethinking of the last Romanov emperor, arguing that ``it was almost impossible to reconcile the demands of...
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Dominic Lieven, Author Yale University Press $35 (528p) ISBN 978-0-300-08859-5
Lieven's compelling assessment of the forces behind the decline of political imperialism tend to sink from view in his dense, far-reaching historical investigation. The first chapter's discussion of the shifting definitions of empire, though at...
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Dominic Lieven. Viking, $35 (448p) ISBN 978-0-670-02558-9
Using Russian and Soviet archives only recently opened to Western historians, Lieven (Russia Against Napoleon) constructs a Russian history of the years leading up to WWI and the Russian Revolution, arguing that, contrary to Western European...
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Dominic Lieven. Viking, $40 (608p) ISBN 978-0-7352-2219-9
Historian Lieven (Russia Against Napoleon) delivers an erudite, globe-spanning study of “hereditary holders of supreme authority” and their systems of government. He highlights the shared features of regimes as far-flung as ancient Mesopotamia and...
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