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

    Written by Helen Rappaport

    Narrated by Xe Sands

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    About this audiobook

    From the New York Times bestselling author 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.

    This program includes a bonus interview with the author and her editor.

    Between the first revolution in February 1917 and 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, offices 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 and wrote 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    Helen Rappaport draws upon this rich trove of material, much of it previously unpublished, to carry us right up to the action – to see, feel and hear the Revolution as it happened to an assortment of individuals who suddenly felt themselves trapped in a "red madhouse."

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMacmillan Audio
    Release dateFeb 7, 2017
    ISBN9781427284785
    Caught in the Revolution: Petrograd, Russia, 1917 - A World on the Edge
    Author

    Helen Rappaport

    Helen Rappaport was born in Bromley, Kent, and studied Russian at Leeds University, before working as a translator and copy editor. She has been a full-time writer for more than twenty-three years, and in 2003 discovered and purchased an 1869 portrait of Mary Seacole that now hangs in the National Portrait Gallery, sparking a long investigation into Seacole’s life and career.

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