Judging by the social media response, the only people to appreciate the “Game of Thrones” series finale might be politics and history nerds like myself.

Daenerys’ speech to her Dothraki cavalry and Unsullied infantry among the burned out ruins of King’s Landing might not have exactly given me chills but it certainly rang some familiar bells, and not just because I’m nearly finished reading Orlando Figes’s excellent “Revolutionary Russia, 1891-1991”.