The Shadow Of The Winter Palace: The Drift To Revolution 1825–1917
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Yellowed
From the gilded halls of St. Petersburg to the smouldering barricades of 1917, The Shadow of the Winter Palace chronicles nearly a century of imperial decline with the precision of a historian and the narrative urgency of a master storyteller. Edward Crankshaw traces the inexorable drift of Romanov Russia toward revolution, mapping the forces — autocratic rigidity, social fracture, and political inertia — that conspired to bring the world's largest empire to its knees across the turbulent span from 1825 to 1917. Crankshaw, one of the twentieth century's most authoritative voices on Russian affairs, argues with compelling clarity that the fall of the Tsars was not a sudden rupture but a long, slow unravelling, visible to those with the courage to look. His prose is both lucid and evocative, illuminating the personalities of successive Tsars, their ministers, and their adversaries with forensic psychological insight. Rich in political analysis yet thoroughly accessible, this landmark work leaves the reader confronting an unavoidable question: could the catastrophe of 1917 ever truly have been avoided?
Author: Edward Crankshaw
Format: Hardback
Published: 1976, Macmillan
Genre: European history
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Yellowed
From the gilded halls of St. Petersburg to the smouldering barricades of 1917, The Shadow of the Winter Palace chronicles nearly a century of imperial decline with the precision of a historian and the narrative urgency of a master storyteller. Edward Crankshaw traces the inexorable drift of Romanov Russia toward revolution, mapping the forces — autocratic rigidity, social fracture, and political inertia — that conspired to bring the world's largest empire to its knees across the turbulent span from 1825 to 1917. Crankshaw, one of the twentieth century's most authoritative voices on Russian affairs, argues with compelling clarity that the fall of the Tsars was not a sudden rupture but a long, slow unravelling, visible to those with the courage to look. His prose is both lucid and evocative, illuminating the personalities of successive Tsars, their ministers, and their adversaries with forensic psychological insight. Rich in political analysis yet thoroughly accessible, this landmark work leaves the reader confronting an unavoidable question: could the catastrophe of 1917 ever truly have been avoided?