“Without Rapustin, there could have been no Lenin.”

“The shot fired at Rasputin killed tsarist Russia.” —Vasili Shulgin

Much of what has been written about Rasputin’s murder is the stuff of half-truths and legends.

In Prelude to the Revolution, Ronald C. Moe reveals the true story of what happened on that dark night in December 1916 is revealed.

Prelude to the Revolution tells the incredible story of the dissolution of tsarist Russia and the murder of Rasputin, the ‘Holy Devil’ whose murder sealed its fate and paved the way for the rise of communism.

>>>Aventine Press, November 2011, 726 pages, 33 illustrations, $24.

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