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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. 2323 The Shadow of the Winter Palace: Russia's Drift to Revolution 1825-1917, by Edward Crankshaw (read 8 Sep 1990) I thought this 1976 book well-done and unfailingly interesting. It starts with the fantastic events surrounding Nicholas I's succession to the throne in December 1825--he was a brother of Alexander I. The author has not very much good to say about any Russian czar--and I suppose he is hardest of all on Nicholas II. It is a fantastic story and is really stranger than fiction. Crankshaw spends some time on 19rh century authors and musicians--he has written a book on Tolstoy and Conrad. Russian history is full of interest for me and I am glad I read this book. (  ) Schmerguls | May 28, 2008 |   no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0670637823, 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 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). (retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:57:52 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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