{"product_id":"9781250056641","title":"Caught in the Revolution: Petrograd, Russia, 1917 - A World on the Edge","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eThe Romanov Sisters\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eCaught in the Revolution \u003c\/i\u003eis \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e Helen Rappaport's\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e masterful telling of the outbreak of the Russian Revolution through eye-witness accounts left by foreign nationals who saw the drama unfold.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBetween 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAmong 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Bochkareva.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHelen Rappaport draws upon this rich trove of material, much of it previously unpublished, to carry us right up to the action – to see, feel and hear the Revolution as it happened to an assortment of individuals who suddenly felt themselves trapped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.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"St. Martin's Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47024453779696,"sku":"9781250056641","price":27.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781250056641_p0.jpg?v=1763701385","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781250056641","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}