Arthur Johnson Memorial Library

Crankshaw, Edward

The shadow of the winter palace Russia's drift to revolution, 1825-1917 Edward Crankshaw - New York Viking Press 1976 - 429 p

A moment of history --
The doomed conspiracy --
The autocratic inheritance --
The state of the empire --
The growth of the mind --
The imperial mission --
The slow drift to disaster --
The Crimean fiasco --
The new tsar --
Revolution from above --
Limits of tolerance and vision --
Peace abroad; prosperity at home --
Aspects of self-love --
"How great is Russia!" --
The impact of terror --
The peace of the graveyard --
New wine in very old bottles --
Nicholas and Alexandra --
Defeat in Asia --
"Impossible to live thus any longer" --
Stolypin and the thirteenth hour --
The end.

This history of Russia under the last four Tsars describes how the seeds of revolution culminated in the November revolution.

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Romanov, House of


History--Russia--1801-1917--1904-1914

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