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Caught in the Revolution: Petrograd, 1917 by Helen Rappaport |
Told through the experiences of foreigners, a vivid account of the disintegration of the cultural world of Tsarist Russia as the February revolution gathered pace towards the Bolshevik victory in October. Journalists and enthusiasts for social change hastened to St. Petersburg when deprivation, exacerbated by war with Germany, triggered the end of Romanov rule. The workers' response to a freedom never experienced or imagined led to strikes, mob violence and the oppression of anyone remotely bourgeois! Brilliantly researched - hard to put down!
(Jane Grey-Edwards - bwl 84 Spring 2017 ) |
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