{"product_id":"caught-in-the-revolution-9780099592426","title":"Caught in the Revolution","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eHelen Rappaport is an historian and Russianist with specialisms in the Victorians and revolutionary Russia. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHer books include \u003ci\u003eNo Place for Ladies: The Untold Story of Women in the Crimean War\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eEkaterinburg: The Last Days of the Romanovs\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBeautiful For Ever: Madame Rachel of Bond Street  Cosmetician, Con-Artist and Blackmailer\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMagnificent Obsession: Victoria, Albert and the Death that Changed the Monarchy; Four Sisters: The Lost Lives of the Romanov Grand Duchesses \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eCaught in the Revolution: Petrograd, 1917\u003c\/i\u003e. A fluent Russian speaker, she has translated many classic Russian plays (including all of Chekhov's) and was historical consultant to Tom Stoppard's National Theatre trilogy \u003ci\u003eThe Coast of Utopia\u003c\/i\u003e (2002). She is also a frequent contributor to television and radio documentaries, most recently \u003ci\u003eRussia's Lost Princesses\u003c\/i\u003e (BBC2, 2014). She lives in West Dorset.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA 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.\u003c\/b\u003e -- Simon Sebag Montefiore, author of The Romanovs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNext year's centenary will prompt a raft of books on the Russian Revolution. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eThey will be hard pushed to better this highly original, exhaustively researched and superbly constructed account.\u003c\/b\u003e -- Saul David * Daily Telegraph *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis is narrative history at its very best\u003c\/b\u003e, communicating the confusion, exhilaration, horror and despair of that momentous year * BBC History Magazine *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eChronicles the events of 1917 through the eyes of foreigners resident in Petrograd\u003c\/b\u003e — diplomats, journalists, merchants, factory owners, charity workers and simple Russophiles...\u003cb\u003e a wonderful array of observations\u003c\/b\u003e, most of them misguided, some downright bizarre. What makes this book so \u003cb\u003edelightful and enlightening\u003c\/b\u003e is the depth of incredulity it reveals...\u003cb\u003e [A] wonderful book\u003c\/b\u003e. -- Gerard DeGroot * The Times *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThoroughly-researched and absorbing... this book offers a compelling picture of life in Petrograd in this momentous and often terrible year...\u003c\/b\u003e One gets a wonderful picture of the extraordinary and beautiful city... and a keen sense of the really grotesque inequality that has always existed there. -- Allan Massie * Scotsman *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA past more dramatic than Chekhov, more tragic than Tolstoy and more romantic than Pasternak...\u003c\/b\u003e Helen Rappaport collates a vast menagerie of eyewitnesses [from Petrograd 1917] into a cast of fascinating characters... bring[ing] an absorbing period of history closer to home. -- Guy Pewsey * Evening Standard *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA vivid account of the city ‘taut as a wire’…\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003ehighly readable\u003c\/b\u003e and fluent… Rappaport has unearthed striking new material -- Spectator * Charlotte Hobson *\u003cbr\u003eFascinating… A colourful account of expatriate life in the Russian capital in 1917. -- Peter Conradi * Sunday Times *","brand":"Cornerstone","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732322988375,"sku":"9780099592426","price":10.44,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780099592426.jpg?v=1719996407","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/caught-in-the-revolution-9780099592426","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}