This book is filled with detailed research and information. Nearly the last 100 pages is listing the reference material used.
First released in the UK in 2016, this book has made it to the US for publication.
This is a must read for history lovers. To be able to learn about people's real life events as they struggled...or thrived... during this time is a treat.
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Hardcover: 464 pages
Publisher: St. Martin's Press (February 7, 2017)
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, bars 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of material, much of it previously unpublished, to carry us right up to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 a
diverse group of individuals who suddenly felt themselves trapped in a
‘red madhouse.’
