Helen Rappaport presents in this monograph the Russian Revolution lived from St. Petersburg in 1917, through the accounts of some foreigners living in the capital of the Russian Empire. The most outstanding testimonies are those of diplomats and journalists, mainly British and North Americans, but also from other countries and professions: bankers, businessmen, volunteer nurses, their relatives, etc. The sources used are mainly personal diaries, letters, reports for Western newspapers and memoirs, published in some cases, unpublished in others. With this material the author manages to create a deeply alive chronicle of those months, told by direct witnesses of the events: Rappaport maintains very well the narrative tension, which never declines.
A.F.S. (Spain, 2017)