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Caught in the Revolution: A World On The Edge

Name: Caught in the Revolution: A World On The Edge
Rating: 5.0 (4 reviews)
ISBN: 9780091958954

Helen Rappaport

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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 Lenin's 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...

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Year:

2022

Publisher:

Random House

Language:

English

ISBN 10:

0091958954

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9780091958954