The shadow of the winter palace
Subtitle: the drift to revolution, 1825-1917
By: Edward Crankshaw
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 1978
Place of publication: Harmondsworth, Eng; New York
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 509
ISBN-13: 9780140046229
Copyright date: 1976
Subjects: Politics and government; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 481-489) and index.
Table of contents: title: A moment of history; title: The doomed conspiracy; title: The autocratic inheritance; title: The state of the empire; title: The growth of the mind; title: The imperial mission; title: The slow drift to disaster; title: The Crimean fiasco; title: The new tsar; title: Revolution from above; title: Limits of tolerance and vision; title: Peace abroad; title: Prosperity at home; title: Aspects of self-love; title: "How great is Russia!"; title: The impact of terror; title: The peace of the graveyard; title: New wine in very old bottles; title: Nicholas and Alexandra; title: Defeat in Asia; title: "Impossible to live thus any longer"; title: Stolypin and the thirteenth hour; title: The end.