Crankshaw, Edward,  1909-1984 <br/><br/>
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) .
<br/><br/> With hard- and supercover 
<br/><br/>Notes: pp. 394-408; bibliography: pp. [409]-415; index: pp. 421-429 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0670637823 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Romanov, House of
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Russia--History--1801-1917<br/>Russia--History--Nicholas II, 1894-1917
<br/><br/><label>Universal Decimal Class. No.: </label>9(47)"1801-1917" (NLA)