num_pages: 440
description: 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 Dostoyevsky 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" (Atlantic Monthly) .
language: English
title: The Shadow of the Winter Palace: Russia's Drift to Revolution 1825-1917
titlecomplete: The Shadow of the Winter Palace: Russia's Drift to Revolution 1825-1917
genres: Politics, European History, Nonfiction, World History, Russian History, Russian Literature, Russia, History
ratings_count: 202
publisher: Da Capo Press