Shadow of the Winter Palace by Edward Crankshaw

Shadow of the Winter Palace by Edward Crankshaw

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).

Edward Crankshaw (1909–1984) was a British writer, translator, and commentator on Soviet events. He was born in London and educated at Bishop's Stortford College in Hertfordshire, a nonconformist public school. For a few months, he worked as a journalist at The New York Times. He lived in Vienna, Austria, in the 1930s, teaching English and learning German (his command of the German language enabled him to join the British Intelligence Agency during World War II). Upon his return, he resumed writing for The New York Times and began writing reviews for The Spectator, The Bookman, and other publications, mostly for musicals. Crankshaw published roughly 40 volumes on Austrian and Russian issues before resuming his research after the war. Gestapo (1956), Crankshaw's book about Nazi terror, was extensively read, and in 1963, he began to write ambitious literary pieces, typically based on historical or epic episodes in Russian political history.

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ISBN 13	9780670637829
ISBN 10	0670637823
Title	Shadow of the Winter Palace
Author	Edward Crankshaw
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Viking Books
Year published	1976-08-19
Number of pages	429
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