Caught in the Revolution: Petrograd, Russia, 1917 - A World on the Edge (Hardcover)

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Helen Rappoport is in my view one of the best authors currently writing on Russian history. This brilliantly researched book weaves accounts together from a range of non-Russians living in Petrograd in 1917, that epoch-making year of two revolutions, including diplomats, their families and staff,...

from spounds

This opened up the Russian Revolution to me in ways that other books haven't. I think it's because the people telling the story are outsiders, non-Russians, yet most of them people who had been in Russia for awhile, many part of the diplomatic staffs, and so it was easy for me to imagine myself t...

from jphamilton

I have read many different books on the Russian revolution, but the variety of viewpoints in this volume made this a very special telling of a people's revolution. I read an early review of this book in which there was the complaint that it didn't have the Russian perspective ... WHAT? Why would ...

from irregularreader

Caught in the Revolution is a meticulously researched account of the months surrounding the 1917 Russian Revolution. The book focuses on the experiences of foreign nationals in Petrograd (St. Petersburg) who were caught up in the violence of the revolution. Rappaport carries the reader from the f...

from beckyhaase

CAUGHT IN THE REVOLUTION by Helen Rappaport The lives of the diplomats , journalists, ordinary citizens and foreign expats who lived through 1917 in Petrograd (now St. Petersburg), Russia as it fell from Tsarist rule to peasant's revolt to anarchy to Leninism is told in exacting detail by Rappapo...