The Shadow of the Winter Palace: Russia's Drift to Revolution 1825 - 1917
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
0670637823
ISBN 13
9780670637829
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Unknown
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Publication Year
1976
Publisher
Pages
429
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). - from Amzon
Number of Copies
2
