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    Time of Troubles: The Diary of Iurii Vladimirovich Got'e

    By Iurii Vladimirovich Got'e

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    Among the few diaries available from inside early Soviet Russia none approaches Iurii V. Got'e's in sustained length of coverage and depth of vivid detail. Got'e was a member of the Moscow intellectual elite--a complex and unusually observant man, who was a professor at Moscow University and one of the most prominent historians of Russia at the time the revolution broke out. Beginning his first entry with the words Finis Russiae, he describes his life in revolution-torn Moscow from July 8, 1917 through July 23, 1922--nearly the entire period of the Russian Revolution and Civil War up to the advent of the New Economic Policy. This remarkable chronicle, published here for the first time, describes the hardships undergone by Got'e's family and friends and the gradual takeover of the academic and professional sectors of Russia by the new regime. Got'e was in his mid-forties when he wrote the diary. At first he felt that Bolshevism meant complete doom for Russia, but eventually his ardent patriotism led him to accept the Bolsheviks' role in preserving the integrity of the Russian state. The diary was discovered in 1982 in the Hoover Institution Archives, in the papers of Frank Golder, to whom Got'e himself had entrusted it in 1922. It is translated literally and unabridged, with annotations by Terence Emmons. The introduction by Professor Emmons places the diary clearly in the context of Got'e's life and scholarly career.

    Originally published in 1988.

    The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPrinceton University Press
    Release dateJul 14, 2014
    ISBN9781400859320
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    • 4/5
      A fascinating personal account of the Russian revolution in diary format by a university professor. His intellect and observations paint a truly clear and disturbing picture of what it was like to live during the Russian revolution. Covering from July 1917 to July 1922 (with an abrupt ending that is not an ending at all) one gets to see the idiocy and inhumanity of this time as seen by someone who loses almost everything.The introduction by Terence Emmons who also translated it puts the book into context. Nice short, annotated footnotes occupy the bottom of most pages and give the reader additional information to pursue.I gave it four stars, but only because I am trying to make five-star ratings rare and exceptional. This is however an exceptional book and worth a read for anyone with an interest in Russian history or the Bolshevik revolution.Note some of his characterizations of the revolution and its people, including leaders, are raw and pejorative in a racial sense.