The Eclipse of Russia is a 1918 history by E. J. Dillon. It surveys late imperial Russia—its court, bureaucracy, revolutionary stirrings and foreign dealings—drawing on the author’s observations. It offers a valuable contemporary perspective on the pressures that shaped the tsardom’s final years.
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Opening of the book
THE ECLIPSE OF RUSSIA BY E. J. DILLON AUTHOR OF "OURSELVES AND GERMANY" "RUSSIAN CHARACTERISTICS" ETC., ETC. 1918 LONDON & TORONTO J. M. DENT & SONS LTD. PARIS: J. M. DENT ET FILS TO THE MEMORY OF MY FRIEND AND RUSSIA'S UNIQUE STATESMAN S. I. WITTE
CONTENTS CHAP. I. THE RUSSIAN ENIGMA II. THE RUSSIAN MIND III. LACK OF RUSSIAN UNITY IV. THE TSARDOM V. SOME PERSONAL RECOLLECTIONS VI. THE RULE OF THE BUREAU VII. THE ADVENT OF NICHOLAS II VIII. THE RULE OF NICHOLAS II IX. THE BEGINNINGS OF THE REVOLUTIONARY MOVEMENT OF 1905 X. FATHER GAPON AND AZEFF XI. WITTE CONDEMNED TO DIE XII. RASPUTIN—A SYMBOL XIII. RUSSIA'S INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS Including The Tsar's Plot to seize the Heights of the Upper Bosphorus—The Story of Kiao Chow XIV. THE LAST STATESMEN OF THE TSARDOM Including The Hague Conference Mystification XV. RUSSIA IN THE FAR EAST XVI. THE SECRET TREATY OF BJÖRKE—I. XVII. THE SECRET TREATY OF BJÖRKE—II. XVIII. THE SECRET TREATY REVEALED XIX. THE DOWNFALL OF THE TSARDOM POSTSCRIPT APPENDIX—DETAILS OF THE SECRET TREATY INDEX
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