Caught in the Revolution: Petrograd, Russia, 1917 – A World on the Edge

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From the New York Times bestselling creator 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) used to be in turmoil – felt nowhere more keenly than at the fashionable Nevsky Prospekt. There, the foreign visitors who filled hotels, clubs, offices and embassies were conscious about 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 USA Ambassador, far from his native Deep South; to suffragette leader Emmeline Pankhurst, who had come to Petrograd to check up on the indomitable Women’s Death Battalion led by Maria Bochkareva.

Helen Rappaport draws upon this wealthy trove of material, much of it prior to now unpublished, to carry us right as much as the action – to see, feel and hear the Revolution as it happened to an assortment of individuals who unexpectedly felt themselves trapped in a “red madhouse.”

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