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

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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 achievementthe 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 charactersand provides a riveting sweeping history "jam-packed with information about the past and implications for the present"