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100 1 $aRappaport, Helen.
245 10$aCaught in the revolution :$bwitness to the fall of Imperial Russia /$cHelen Rappaport.
246 1 $iTitle in CIP record:$aCaught in the revolution :$bPetrograd, Russia, 1917--a world on the edge.
250 $aFirst St. Martin's Groffom eition.
260 $aNew York :$bSt. Martin's Griffin,$c2018.
300 $axxiv, 514 p., 16 unnumbered p. of plates :$billustrations, map, portraits ;$c24 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 415-486) and index.
520 $aCaught in the Revolution is Helen Rappaport's masterful telling of the outbreak of the Russian Revolution through eye-witness accounts left by foreign nationals who saw the drama unfold. Between the first revolution in February 1917and Lenin's Bolshevik coup in October, Petrograd (the former St. Petersburg) was in turmoil--felt nowhere more keenly than on the fashionable Nevsky Prospekt. There, the foreign visitors who filled hotels, clubs, bars and embassies were acutely aware of the chaos breaking out on their doorsteps and beneath their windows. Among this disparate group were journalists, diplomats, businessmen, bankers, governesses, volunteer nurses and expatriate socialites. Many kept diaries andwrote letters home: from an English nurse who had already survived the sinking of the Titanic; to the black valet of the US Ambassador, far from his native Deep South; to suffragette leader Emmeline Pankhurst, who had come to Petrograd to inspect the indomitable Women's Death Battalion led by Maria Bochkareva. Helen Rappaport draws upon this rich trove of material, much of it previously unpublished, to carry us right up to the action--to see, feel and hear the Revolution as ithappened to an assortment of individuals who suddenly felt themselves trapped in a 'red madhouse'- -$cProvided by publisher.
650 0$aVisitors, Foreign$zRussia (Federation)$zSaint Petersburg$vBiography.
650 0$aWar and society$zRussia (Federation)$zSaint Petersburg$xHistory$y20th century.
651 0$aSaint Petersburg (Russia)$xHistory, Military$y20th century.
651 0$aSoviet Union$xHistory$yRevolution, 1917-1921$vPersonal narratives.
651 0$aSaint Petersburg (Russia)$vBiography.
651 0$aSaint Petersburg (Russia)$xSocial conditions$y20th century.
651 0$aSaint Petersburg (Russia)$xHistory$yRevolution, 1917-1921$xSocial aspects.
651 0$aSaint Petersburg (Russia)$xHistory$yRevolution, 1917-1921$vPersonal narratives.
651 0$aSoviet Union$xHistory$yRevolution, 1917-1921$xSocial aspects.