The shadow of the winter palace : Russia's drift to revolution, 1825-1917 /
Crankshaw, Edward, 1909-1984
The shadow of the winter palace : Russia's drift to revolution, 1825-1917 / by Edward Crankshaw. - New York : Viking Press, 1976. - 429 p., [4] leaves of plates : ill., maps ; 25 cm. - 9(47)"1801-1917" (NLA) .
With hard- and supercover
Notes: pp. 394-408; bibliography: pp. [409]-415; index: pp. 421-429
Cont.: 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
Romanov, House of
Russia--History--1801-1917
Russia--History--Nicholas II, 1894-1917
9(47)"1801-1917" (NLA)
The shadow of the winter palace : Russia's drift to revolution, 1825-1917 / by Edward Crankshaw. - New York : Viking Press, 1976. - 429 p., [4] leaves of plates : ill., maps ; 25 cm. - 9(47)"1801-1917" (NLA) .
With hard- and supercover
Notes: pp. 394-408; bibliography: pp. [409]-415; index: pp. 421-429
Cont.: 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
Romanov, House of
Russia--History--1801-1917
Russia--History--Nicholas II, 1894-1917
9(47)"1801-1917" (NLA)