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.
- ISBN10 0875805973
- ISBN13 9780875805979
- Publish Date 16 July 2003 (first published 1 January 1983)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Publisher Cornell University Press
- Imprint Northern Illinois University Press
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 573
- Language English