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From INTRODUCTION, Francis B. Randall, 1962 When he wrote this book Bernard Pares was beginning a long and notable career as a Russianist that would gain him a knighthood. He became the first professor of Russian history in the English-speaking world, at the University of Liverpool in 1908. In World War I he served enthusiastically as a British officer with the Russian army, and was decorated at the front. The Revolution of 1917 first raised his friend Miliukov to power, and then dashed Pares' dream of a liberal Russia forever. He was a British commissioner to Kolchak's White government during the Russian Civil War, and was therefore kept out of Communist Russia for sixteen years. . . . .
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