TY  - BOOK
AU  - Crankshaw,Edward
TI  - The shadow of the winter palace: Russia's drift to revolution, 1825-1917 
SN  - 0670637823
PY  - 1976///
CY  - New York
PB  - Viking Press
KW  - Romanov, House of
KW  - Russia
KW  - History
KW  - 1801-1917
KW  - Nicholas II, 1894-1917
N1  - 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
ER  -