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050 0 0 _aDK189
_b.C66 1976
082 0 0 _a947.08 CRA
100 1 _aCrankshaw, Edward
245 1 4 _aThe shadow of the winter palace
_b: Russia's drift to revolution, 1825-1917
_c/ Edward Crankshaw
260 _aNew York
_b: Viking Press
_c, 1976.
300 _a429 p., [4] leaves of plates
_b: ill.
_c; 25 cm.
500 _aIncludes index.
504 _aBibliography: p. [409]-415.
505 0 _aA 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
600 3 0 _aRomanov, House of
651 0 _aRussia
_x--History
_y--1801-1917.
651 _aRussia
_x-History
_y-Nicholas II, 1894-1917
942 _cMO
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