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Book Witnesses to the Russian Revolution

Download or read book Witnesses to the Russian Revolution written by and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Witnesses to the Russian Revolution

Download or read book Witnesses to the Russian Revolution written by Roger Pethybridge and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-02-17 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume, originally published in 1964, presents a series of slides illustrating the major events of the Russian Revolution. Gathering together many accounts from the memoirs of innumerable people from every walk of life and political frame of mind: communists and tsarists, foreign journalists and ambassadors in Petrograd, Russian soldiers at the front and peasants in the countryside. The accounts of the witnesses allow the reader to relive the chaos and the high drama of the revolution through their eyes and experiences.

Book Witnesses of the Russian Revolution

Download or read book Witnesses of the Russian Revolution written by Harvey Pitcher and published by Trafalgar Square. This book was released on 1994 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Witnesses Of The Russian Revolution

Download or read book Witnesses Of The Russian Revolution written by Harvey Pitcher and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-02-28 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a book on the Russian Revolution with a difference. It unites the formal history and the individual memoir by telling the story of 1917 in the words of eyewitnesses who say history in the making. They witnessed two revolutions - the overthrow of Tsarism in March and the Bolshevik seizure of power in November - and described them with an immediacy that later accounts never achieve. These witnesses are British and American rather than Russian: as outsiders, they could see more of the game. They include diplomats, newspaper correspondents, the military, businessmen, even the occasional English governess. There are also adventurous young American radicals like John Reed, author of Ten Days That Shook the World, and unexpected figures like Arthur Ransome, who married Trotsky's secretary and later wrote such children's classic as Swallows and Amazons. Their brilliant journalism has been unread since 1917, while many other eyewitness accounts are published here for the first time. Harvey Pitcher skilfully weaves their accounts into a vivid and absorbing narrative, treating the witnesses' often conflicting views of the Revolution with impartiality and leaving readers free to form their own judgements. In a new Afterword to the Pimlico edition, Harvey Pitcher relates the events of 1917 to what is happening in Russia today.

Book Witnesses to the Russian Revolution  Ed  by R  W   Pethybridge

Download or read book Witnesses to the Russian Revolution Ed by R W Pethybridge written by and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Petrograd 1917

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  • Author : John Pinfold
  • Publisher : Bodleian Library
  • Release : 2017
  • ISBN : 9781851244607
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Petrograd 1917 written by John Pinfold and published by Bodleian Library. This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "It's damned hard lines asking for bread and only getting a bullet!" The dramatic and chaotic events surrounding the Russian Revolution have been studied and written about extensively for the last hundred years, by historians and journalists alike. However, some of the most compelling and valuable accounts are those recorded by eyewitnesses, many of whom were foreign nationals caught in Petrograd at the time. Drawing from the Bodleian Library's rich collections, this book features extracts from letters, journals, diaries and memoirs written by a diverse cast of onlookers. Primarily British, the authors include Sydney Gibbes, English tutor to the royal children, Bertie Stopford, an antiques dealer who smuggled the Vladimir tiara and other Romanov jewels into the UK, and the private secretary to Lord Milner in the British War Cabinet. Contrasting with these are a memoir by Stinton Jones, an engineer who found himself sharing a train compartment with Rasputin, a newspaper report by governess Janet Jeffrey who survived a violent confrontation with the Red Army, and letters home from Labour politician, Arthur Henderson. Accompanied by seventy contemporary illustrations, these first-hand accounts are put into context with introductory notes, giving a fascinating insight into the tumultuous year of 1917.

Book Witnesses to Permanent Revolution  The Documentary Record

Download or read book Witnesses to Permanent Revolution The Documentary Record written by Richard B. Day and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2009-02-23 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The theory of Permanent Revolution has been associated with Leon Trotsky for more than a century since the first Russian Revolution in 1905. Trotsky was the most brilliant proponent of Permanent Revolution but by no means its sole author. The documents in this volume, most of them translated into English for the first time, demonstrate that Trotsky was one of several participants in a debate from 1903-7 that involved numerous leading figures of Russian and European Marxism, including Karl Kautsky, Rosa Luxemburg, Franz Mehring, Parvus and David Ryazanov. This volume reassembles that debate, assesses it with reference to Marx and Engels, and provides new evidence for interpreting the formative years of Russian revolutionary Marxism.

Book Witnesses to the Russian Revolution  Edited by Roger Pethybridge

Download or read book Witnesses to the Russian Revolution Edited by Roger Pethybridge written by Roger William PETHYBRIDGE and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Witness to the Russian Revolution

Download or read book Witness to the Russian Revolution written by Roger Pethybridge and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Eyewitnesses to the Russian Revolution

Download or read book Eyewitnesses to the Russian Revolution written by Todd Chretien and published by Haymarket Books. This book was released on 2017-11-20 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive chronicle of the Russian Revolution is told through the eyewitness accounts of journalists, political leaders, and ordinary citizens. More than a century ago, workers and peasants in Russia turned the world upside down when they overthrew their tsar, took over their factories, farms, and schools, and set out to build a new society. In this gripping reader, participants and firsthand observers of the revolution tell the inspiring, heroic, and sometimes tragic story of what happened in Russia over the course of 1917. Introduced and edited by Todd Chretien, Eyewitnesses to the Russian Revolution includes contributions from Leon Trotsky, Rosa Luxemburg, Vladimir Lenin, John Reed, Louise Bryant, and others.

Book Through the Russian Revolution  Notes of an Eye witness  from 12th March 30th May

Download or read book Through the Russian Revolution Notes of an Eye witness from 12th March 30th May written by Claude Anet and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Blood on the Snow

Download or read book Blood on the Snow written by Elisabeth Heresch and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Explains, chronologically through eye-witness accounts, how the Russian Empire fell in 1917 to a handful of revolutionaries unknown to the masses and demonstrates the role of Germany and the United States in financing the revolution to overthrow the Tsar"--

Book The Diary of Olga Romanov

Download or read book The Diary of Olga Romanov written by Grand Duchess Olʹga Nikolaevna (daughter of Nicholas II, Emperor of Russia) and published by Westholme Publishing. This book was released on 2015-03-23 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In August 1914, Russia entered World War I, and with it, the imperial family of Tsar Nicholas II was thrust into a conflict they would not survive. His eldest child, Olga Nikolaevna, great-granddaughter of Queen Victoria, had begun a diary in 1905 when she was ten years old and kept writing her thoughts and impressions of day-to-day life as a grand duchess until abruptly ending her entries when her father abdicated his throne in March 1917. Held at the State Archives of the Russian Federation in Moscow, Olga's diaries during the wartime period have never been translated into English until this volume. At the outset of the war, Olga and her sister Tatiana worked as nurses in a military hospital along with their mother, Tsarina Alexandra. Olga's younger sisters, Maria and Anastasia, visited the infirmaries to help raise the morale of the wounded and sick soldiers. The strain was indeed great, as Olga records her impressions of tending to the officers who had been injured and maimed in the fighting on the Russian front. Concerns about her sickly brother, Aleksei, abound, as well those for her father, who is seen attempting to manage the ongoing war. Gregori Rasputin appears in entries, too, in an affectionate manner as one would expect of a family friend. While the diaries reflect the interests of a young woman, her tone grows increasingly serious as the Russian army suffers setbacks, Rasputin is ultimately murdered, and a popular movement against her family begins to grow.

Book Caught in the Revolution

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  • Author : Helen Rappaport
  • Publisher : Random House
  • Release : 2016-08-25
  • ISBN : 1473518172
  • Pages : 547 pages

Download or read book Caught in the Revolution written by Helen Rappaport and published by Random House. This book was released on 2016-08-25 with total page 547 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SELECTED AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR IN THE TELEGRAPH AND EVENING STANDARD '[The] centenary will prompt a raft of books on the Russian Revolution. They will be hard pushed to better this highly original, exhaustively researched and superbly constructed account.' Saul David, Daily Telegraph 'A gripping, vivid, deeply researched chronicle of the Russian Revolution told through the eyes of a surprising, flamboyant cast of foreigners in Petrograd, superbly narrated by Helen Rappaport.' Simon Sebag Montefiore, author of The Romanovs Between the first revolution in February 1917 and Lenin’s Bolshevik coup in October, Petrograd (the former St Petersburg) was in turmoil. Foreign visitors who filled hotels, bars and embassies were acutely aware of the chaos breaking out on their doorsteps. Among them were journalists, diplomats, businessmen, governesses and volunteer nurses. 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 Bochkareava. Drawing upon a rich trove of material and through eye-witness accounts left by foreign nationals who saw the drama unfold, Helen Rappaport takes us right up to the action – to see, feel and hear the Revolution as it happened.

Book Eyewitnesses to the Russian Revolution

Download or read book Eyewitnesses to the Russian Revolution written by Todd Chretien and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Russian Revolution turned the world upside down. This reader tells the story of what happened with riveting eyewitness accounts.

Book Through the Russian Revolution

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  • Author : Jean (Claude Anet) Schopfer ((Claude Anet, pseud))
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1917
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 253 pages

Download or read book Through the Russian Revolution written by Jean (Claude Anet) Schopfer ((Claude Anet, pseud)) and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: