By
Edward Crankshaw (1909-1984)
Penguin Books
New York
1978
509 p.; 19.5 cm. (7.75 inches). Paperback with glossy, color illustrated front cover. Includes notes on sources, bibliography, chronological table, and index.
"Comprehensive, marvellously and scrupulously written, full of wit and coloured at times with passionate sarcasm, perceptive, and often merciful to personalities for whom historians have found hardly a sumpathetic phrase. But it is also a great polemic" [from a review on the back cover]
ISBN: 0140046224
Considered one of the best books on the century leading to the Russian Revolution.
Book is in Near Fine Condition: pages clean, tight, unmarked; light browning at the margins. Overall, a Nice Copy
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