Opis: Caught in the Revolution Petrograd 1917 - Helen Rappaport

Selected as a Book of the Year in the Telegraph and Evening Standard [The] centenary will prompt a raft of books on the Russian Revolution. They will be hard pushed to better this highly original, exhaustively researched and superbly constructed account. (Saul David, Daily Telegraph). A gripping, vivid, deeply researched chronicle of the Russian Revolution told through the eyes of a surprising, flamboyant cast of foreigners in Petrograd, superbly narrated by Helen Rappaport. (Simon Sebag Montefiore, author of The Romanovs). Between the first revolution in February 1917 and Lenins Bolshevik coup in October, Petrograd (the former St Petersburg) was in turmoil. Foreign visitors who filled hotels, bars and embassies were acutely aware of the chaos breaking out on their doorsteps. Among them were journalists, diplomats, businessmen, governesses and volunteer nurses. 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 Womens Death Battalion led by Maria Bochkareava. Drawing upon a rich trove of material and through eye-witness accounts left by foreign nationals who saw the drama unfold, Helen Rappaport takes us right up to the action - to see, feel and hear the Revolution as it happened.

Szczegóły: Caught in the Revolution Petrograd 1917 - Helen Rappaport

Tytuł: Caught in the Revolution Petrograd 1917
Autor: Helen Rappaport
Wydawnictwo: Windmill Books
ISBN: 9780099592426
Języki: angielski
Rok wydania: 2017
Ilość stron: 464
Format: 12.9x19.8cm
Oprawa: Miękka
Waga: 0.346 kg

Recenzje: Caught in the Revolution Petrograd 1917 - Helen Rappaport