Anarchy and Authority: Irish Encounters with Romanov Russia

Connections between the peoples of Ireland and Russia stretch back centuries, from the modern Post-Soviet period, through the turmoil of the twentieth century, and back deep into the foundations of the Romanov empire. In Angela Byrne’s illuminating new work Anarchy and Authority, readers follow the Irish men and women who ventured forth into the Russian empire during the two long centuries from the reign of Peter the Great until the end of Romanov rule in the early twentieth century. Human ...