Binding: Paperback
Description: From the New York Times bestselling author of The Romanov Sisters Caught in the Revolution is Helen Rappaport's masterful telling of the outbreak of the Russian Revolution through eye - witness accounts left by 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 Helen Rappaport draws upon this rich trove of material much of it previously unpublished to carry us right up to the action to see feel and hear the Revolution as it happened to an assortment of individuals who suddenly felt themselves trapped in a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."
Title: Caught In The Revolution Witnesses To The Fall Of Imperial Russia
Author(s): Rappaport Helen
Publisher: St. Martin's Publishing Group
Barcode: 9781250164414
Pages: 560 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 4/10/2018