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...back as the Crimean and Japanese Wars the government had lost prestige at home and abroad, but demands for reform were met with more systematic repression, until by 1917 the Tsar could scarcely find support outside the ranks of the nobility. The livest sections of Author Chamberlin's history are to be found in his descriptions of the collapse of the Romanov autocracy, "one of the most leaderless, spontaneous, anonymous revolutions of all time," and of the hourly dissolution of the monarchy that suddenly fell apart like a gigantic One-Hoss Shay. Again & again Author Chamberlin introduces incidents...
...promotion methods in those days were not what they were to become later in the century, but that gap was neatly bridged by the demands that the new steambeats and the even newer railroads were making on the producers of iron and steel. Pheu, in 1854, the Crimean War broke out, and Eagene (alone now, following Adolph's death) converted l.e. Creusot almost exclusive to the manufacture of arms. The family fortune was founded; the family tradition was established...
...greatest Russian might, and of the full consciousness of it." Born the third son of impoverished country gentry, "Alexey Alexandrovich Arseniev" grew up in central Russia in an atmosphere of shabby nobility and melancholy decay. His father was an attractive spendthrift who lived on memories of the Crimean War, magniloquent hopes for the future, present delusions of his own practical sense. Alexey had the upbringing and the schooling of a reduced gentleman, but there was no career in store for any of the Arseniev sons. Nicholas married and settled down on a farm; George turned Socialist, was arrested and spent...
...never make a soldier. Alastair made an almost unforgivable blunder when he turned down the chance of marrying his colonel's daughter and fell in love with his cousin, Katherine St. Quentyn. Worse, he took advantage of Katherine's pity to spoil her good name. Luckily the Crimean War had begun or the St. Quentyns would have certainly called him out. Alastair tried his best to be killed before Sevastopol but only succeeded in losing an arm, while every St. Quentyn who might have pistoled him went down to death and glory. Home again as a hero, Alastair...
...Background of the Crimean War," Asst. Prof. Langer, Harvard...