A review by summsummsummer
The Last Days of the Romanovs: Tragedy at Ekaterinburg by Helen Rappaport

dark informative

1.0

so bias it's alarming. the last of footnotes means cross referencing any information is near impossible. the chapter structure was compelling but the actual writing was bland. until it got to the assassination at which point it got very graphic and the contrast to the rest of the book made it that much more uncomfortable. it's so anti communist that the parties and people who were anti-boleshevik but still leftist are pitied as being more victims of the evil communists. in the afterward the author seems to respond to critisism about the book but it only reenforces how bias. she doesn't want to cast judgement on the royal family but constantly calls the soviets brutal evil killers. I wanted a book that paralleled the last days of the romanovs with Russian history and stories of the population. instead it's an