Caught in the Revolution: Petrograd, Russia, 1917 – a World on the Edge by Helen Rappaport (Author), Xe Sands (Narrator)
Requirements: MP3 Player, 32 kbps, Duration: 10 hours and 34 minutes, 149 MB
Overview: From the New York Times best-selling author of The Romanov Sisters, Caught in the Revolution is Helen Rappaport’s masterful telling of the outbreak of the Russian Revolution through eyewitness accounts left by foreign nationals who saw the drama unfold.
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.
Genre: Audiobooks > Historical; Russia
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