DR. JOHN SWIFT is a lecturer at St. Martin's College, Lancaster, and also an honorary research fellow at Lancaster University History Department. He is the author of Labour in Crisis: Clement Attlee and the Labour Party in Opposition, 1931-34 and Peter the Great.
Praise for books in the Palgrave Concise Historical Atlas Series: </p> a useful text and library reference...can serve as a supplemental volume or stand alone as a short text - Nationalities Papers</p> . . . a valuable tool for the classroom and the general public. -Multicultural Review</p>