Contents
Cover
Title Page
Dedication
List of Illustrations
Glossary of Eyewitnesses
Author’s Note
Map of Petrograd 1917
Prologue: ‘The Air is Thick with Talk of Catastrophe’
PART 1: THE FEBRUARY REVOLUTION 1 ‘Women are Beginning to Rebel at Standing in Bread Lines’
2 ‘No Place for an Innocent Boy from Kansas’
3 ‘Like a Bank Holiday with Thunder in the Air’
4 ‘A Revolution Carried on by Chance’
5 Easy Access to Vodka ‘Would Have Precipitated a Reign of Terror’
6 ‘Good to be Alive These Marvelous Days’
7 ‘People Still Blinking in the Light of the Sudden Deliverance’
8 The Field of Mars
9 Bolsheviki! It Sounds ‘Like All that the World Fears’
PART 2: THE JULY DAYS 10 ‘The Greatest Thing in History since Joan of Arc’
11 ‘What Would the Colony Say if We Ran Away?’
12 ‘This Pest-Hole of a Capital’
PART 3: THE OCTOBER REVOLUTION 13 ‘For Color and Terror and Grandeur This Makes Mexico Look Pale’
14 ‘We Woke Up to Find the Town in the Hands of the Bolsheviks’
15 ‘Crazy People Killing Each Other Just Like We Swat Flies at Home’
Postscript: The Forgotten Voices of Petrograd
Acknowledgements
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Photographs
Also by Helen Rappaport
About the Author
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Copyright
Guide
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