Full name: The Shadow of the Winter Palace: Russia's Drift to Revolution, 1825-1917

Author: Edward Crankshaw Year: 1976 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: History, Non Fiction Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780306809408 0306809400

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). Similar books: The Fall of the House of Habsburg by Edward Crankshaw Russia and the Russians by Geoffrey Hosking A History of Russia by Nicholas V. Riasanovsky Red Fortress by Catherine Merridale Russia by Martin Sixsmith Former People by Douglas Smith Russia and the Golden Horde by Charles J. Halperin The Romanovs by Simon Sebag Montefiore A History of Modern Russia by Robert Service Empire of the Czar by Astolphe de Custine Land of the Firebird by Suzanne Massie Black Night, White Snow by Harrison E. Salisbury The Icon and the Axe by James H. Billington The Russian Revolution by Alan Moorehead Red Mutiny by Neal Bascomb The Russian Revolution by Richard Pipes Dead Wake by Erik Larson One Summer: America, 1927 by Bill Bryson Six Frigates by Ian W. Toll 102 Minutes by Jim Dwyer