Description:
The Shadow of the Winter Palace - Russia's Drift to Revolution 1825 1917Author: Edward Crankshaw
ISBN-13: 9780670637829
ISBN-10: 0670637823
Publication Date: 8/19/1976
6.7 x 9.5 inches
Pages: 429
Publisher: Viking Adult
Book Type: Hardcover
Exactly 175 years ago, on the Senate Square in St. Petersburg, a failed uprising ignited a process that would, one red October, finally sweep the autocracy away. The Shadow of the Winter Palace recounts an extraordinary century of Russian history, a politically tempestuous time that was also a Golden Age of intellectual and artistic achievement-the century of Dostoevsky and Tolstoy, of Rimsky-Korsakov and Tchaikovsky. A master stylist and a distinguished historian, Edward Crankshaw limns dazzling portraits of the czars, the revolutionaries, and a host of other unforgettable characters-and provides a riveting, sweeping history "jam-packed with information about the past and implications for the present" (The Atlantic Monthly). " less
Good+ condition - jacket edge wear
