The Fall of the House of Habsburg
by Edward Crankshaw |
Red Fortress
by Catherine Merridale |
Russia
by Martin Sixsmith |
Former People
by Douglas Smith | 
The Romanovs
by Simon Sebag Montefiore | 
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 Richard Pipes | 
Natasha's Dance
by Orlando Figes |
In War's Dark Shadow
by W. Bruce Lincoln |
The Romanovs
by W. Bruce Lincoln | 
A People's Tragedy
by Orlando Figes |
The Russian Revolution
by Sheila Fitzpatrick | 
The Russian Revolution
by Sean McMeekin | 
The Harvest of Sorrow
by Robert Conquest | 
Dead Wake
by Erik Larson | 
One Summer: America, 1927
by Bill Bryson | 
Six Frigates
by Ian W. Toll |
102 Minutes
by Jim Dwyer |
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).