Former People
by Douglas Smith | 
A People's Tragedy
by Orlando Figes |
October
by China Mieville |
The Russian Revolution
by Sheila Fitzpatrick |
The Shadow of the Winter Palace
by Edward Crankshaw |
Russia
by Martin Sixsmith | 
The Russian Revolution
by Sean McMeekin | 
The Russian Revolution
by Richard Pipes |
Red Fortress
by Catherine Merridale | 
A Concise History of the Russian Revolution
by Richard Pipes | 
The Last Days of the Romanovs
by Helen Rappaport | 
History of the Russian Revolution
by Leon Trotsky |
In War's Dark Shadow
by W. Bruce Lincoln | 
The Icon and the Axe
by James H. Billington | 
Land of the Firebird
by Suzanne Massie | 
Dead Wake
by Erik Larson | 
One Summer: America, 1927
by Bill Bryson | 
Six Frigates
by Ian W. Toll |
102 Minutes
by Jim Dwyer | 
The History of Jihad
by Robert Spencer |
The destruction of the Czars which brought about the reign of revolutions from 1905-1917 in Russia looms as the crucial political event of the twentieth century. In little more than a decade the Romanov dynasty was toppled, and its time-honored institutions repudiated. How did it happen? How could Nicholas and Alexandra, the nobility, middle class anarchists--even Lenin himself--not foresee the catastrophic changes that were shaking the empire? Why could nothing be done? And why were the efforts so ineffectual? Black Night, White Snow captures the rich drama of this whole period. With the artistry of a Balzac, Harrison Salisbury exposes the strata of Russian society, with its decedents, prophetic poets, religious fanatics, and newly liberated serfs. From archival sources within the Soviet Union, interviews, and his personal photography collection, he recreates the story as it happened. Hard data on Russia's economy, a first-hand knowledge of the county, and a historian's gift of compression are combined in a fast-paced narrative that reads with the ease of a good novel and the urgency of a newspaper headline.