SOCIAL SCIENCES

Caught in the Revolution: Petrograd, Russia, 1917; A World on the Edge

by Helen Rappaport

St. Martin's. Feb. 2017. 464p. illus. notes. bibliog. index. ISBN 9781250056641. $27.99; ebk. ISBN 978146686045.

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Rappaport contributes a unique take on the revolution using vivid primary source accounts from American, British, and French citizens who lived and worked in St. Petersburg in February 1917. The city comes alive as people witnessed the beginnings of a new nation and ideology. (LJ11/15/16)

Reviewed by Laurie Unger Skinner , Jan 01, 2017

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