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Caught in the Revolution

Name: Caught in the Revolution
ISBN: 9781466860452

Witness to the Fall of Imperial Russia

Helen Rappaport,

594 pages
English
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eBook - ePub

Caught in the Revolution

Witness to the Fall of Imperial Russia

Helen Rappaport,

About this book

The New York Times –bestselling author explores the history of Russian Revolution through the eyes of foreign nationals who saw the drama unfold.

Between the first revolution in February 1917 and Lenin's Bolshevik coup in October, Petrograd (the former St. Petersburg) was in turmoil—felt nowhere more keenly than on the fashionable Nevsky Prospekt. There, the foreign visitors who filled hotels, clubs, offices and embassies were acutely aware of the chaos breaking out on their doorsteps and beneath their windows.

Among this disparate group were journalists, diplomats, businessmen, bankers, governesses, volunteer nurses and expatriate socialites. Many kept diaries and wrote letters home: from an English nurse who had already survived the sinking of the Titanic; to the black valet of the US Ambassador, far from his native Deep South; to suffragette leader Emmeline Pankhurst, who had come to Petrograd to inspect the indomitable Women's Death Battalion led by Maria Bochkareva.

Helen Rappaport draws upon this rich trove of material, much of it previously unpublished, to carry us right up to the action—to see, feel and hear the Revolution as it happened to an assortment of individuals who suddenly felt themselves trapped in a "red madhouse."

"Lively . . . Ms. Rappaport's account works well as an introduction to a complicated year, but is most valuable for its record of the impressions of those who lived through it." ? Wall Street Journal

"One of the great strengths of this book is the way in which the unheralded and the celebrated mingle in its pages . . . A mosaic of truth which no fictional one could outdo." ? The Washington Times

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