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Beginning the narrative in 1891, this popular history recounts events in Russia before the outbreak of World War I. Issues of war and high politics, including the Russo-Japanese war, vie for space with descriptions of everyday life for the peasantry and the burgeoning urban proletariat, lives lived under conditions that produced one of the great upheavals of modern history. This is a paperbound edition of a work first published in 1983. Annotation (c) Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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In the quarter century before World War I, change came to Russia at a dizzying pace. The industrial revolution, the building of the Trans-Siberian Railroad, the disastrous Russo-Japanese War, and the Revolution of 1905 drastically reshaped the lives of both the ruling classes and ordinary people. Imperial Russia was home to more than a hundred million men and women, but by the time Vladimir Lenin announced the Bolsheviks' revolutionary victory, one in three had either perished or fled in exile. In War's Dark Shadow explores the lives, thoughts, and hopes of the Russian people as they entered the twentieth century.
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