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The Shadow of the Winter Palace: Russia's Drift to Revolution, 1825-1917

By Edward Crankshaw

Book information

Publisher
Da Capo Press
Year
2000
ISBN
0306809400, 9780306809408
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
24 MB (25386355 bytes)
Edition
Revised ed.
Pages
440\510
Library
Saint Vincent Archabbey Library
Time added
2022-05-05 00:07:32

Description

Exactly 175 years ago, on the Senate Square in St. Petersburg, a failed uprising ignited a process that would, one red October, finally sweep the autocracy away. The Shadow of the Winter Palace recounts an extraordinary century of Russian history, a politically tempestuous time that was also a Golden Age of intellectual and artistic achievement -- the century of Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy, of Rimsky-Korsakov and Tchaikovsky. A master stylist and a distinguished historian, Edward Crankshaw limns dazzling portraits of the czars, the revolutionaries, and a host of other unforgettable characters -- and provides a riveting, sweeping history "jam-packed with information about the past and implications for the present"(Atlantic Monthly).

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