In this vibrant account, historian Greg King offers the most extensive examination of this pivotal event ever available in English. Drawing on archival sources in Russia, obscure memoirs, and a wealth of emigre literature, Nine Days That Shook the World reconstructs events surrounding the abdication while setting them within their historical framework.
Important events leading to the crisis are examined as well as the wealth of conspiracy theories which ring the abdication. At the same time, a sensitive portrait of Nicholas II's fragile psychological state adds a layer of understanding to his action and inaction during the biggest crisis of his reign.