The shadow of the winter palace : Russia's drift to revolution, 1825-1917
Crankshaw, Edward
The shadow of the winter palace : Russia's drift to revolution, 1825-1917 / Edward Crankshaw - New York : Viking Press , 1976. - 429 p., [4] leaves of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Includes index.
Bibliography: p. [409]-415.
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
0670637823
76010636
Romanov, House of
Russia----History----1801-1917.
Russia---History---Nicholas II, 1894-1917
DK189 / .C66 1976
947.08 CRA
The shadow of the winter palace : Russia's drift to revolution, 1825-1917 / Edward Crankshaw - New York : Viking Press , 1976. - 429 p., [4] leaves of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Includes index.
Bibliography: p. [409]-415.
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
0670637823
76010636
Romanov, House of
Russia----History----1801-1917.
Russia---History---Nicholas II, 1894-1917
DK189 / .C66 1976
947.08 CRA
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