The Fall of Tsarism ─ Untold Stories of the February 1917 Revolution

The Fall of Tsarism contains a series of gripping, plain-spoken testimonies from some of the leading participants of the Russian Revolution of February 1917, including the future revolutionary premier Alexander Kerenskii.

Recorded in the spring of 1917, months before the Bolsheviks seized power, these interviews represent the earliest first-hand testimonies on the overthrow of the Tsarist regime known to historians. Hidden away and presumed lost for the better part of a century, they are now revealed to the world for the first time.

Semion Lyandres is Professor of Modern Russian History at the University of Notre Dame, and author ofThe Bolshevik's German Gold Revisited: An Inquiry into the 1917 Accusations (1995). He is also co-editor, with Dietmar Wulff, of the diaries of Petr P. Vologodskii.