The Russian Revolution Author:Ropbert Golston 1917-and the Russian people can endure no more. Provoked by military disaster, economic chaos, and centuries of cruel repression, peasants, workers, soldiers, and cossacks unite to destroy the detested Romanov dynasty. The fumbling Czar, his corrupt ministers, his incompetents generals, his savage secret police, his fanatic wife, his weird advis... more »er the monk Rasputin- all are swept away by the wrath of the people. But what will replace them?.« less