Caught in the revolution : Petrograd, Russia, 1917--a world on the edge
Record details
- ISBN: 9781427284792 :
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Physical Description:
sound disc
9 audio discs (630 min.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in. - Edition: Unabridged
- Publisher: [New York] : Macmillan Audio, [2017]
Content descriptions
General Note: | Title from container. Compact disc. Unabridged. Restricted to use by people with documented print impairment. Includes an interview with the author. |
Participant or Performer Note: | Read by Xe Sands. |
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Genre: | Audiobooks. Biographies. Personal narratives. |
Available copies
- 0 of 1 copy available at BC Interlibrary Connect.
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- 1 current hold with 1 total copy.
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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Williams Lake Branch | 947.0841 RAP (Text) | 33923005800663 | Book on Compact Disc | Not holdable | Missing | - |
Summary:
"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, bars 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 Helen Rappaport draws upon this rich trove of material, much of it previously unpublished, to carry us right up to the action--to see, feel and hear the Revolution as it happened to an assortment of individuals who suddenly felt themselves trapped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'."--