Authoritarian systems often concentrate power in the hands of a single leader.
The last official tsar of Russia was Tsar Nicholas II, who abdicated on March 15, 1917, following the Russian Revolution. It ended more than three centuries of rule by the Romanov family. Nicholas II ...
In “Rasputin,” the biographer Antony Beevor delves into the mysterious life of the last czarina’s mystic adviser. By Sophie Pinkham Sophie Pinkham is the author of “The Oak and the Larch: A Forest ...