The Russian Revolution 1917: A Personal Record
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Edition: 1st ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good condition
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Fold-out maps intact.
Few eyewitness accounts of history's most seismic upheavals carry the raw authority of The Russian Revolution 1917: A Personal Record — a memoir written from the very heart of the storm by Nikolai Nikolaevich Sukhanov, a Menshevik journalist and political activist who stood at the crossroads of power as the Tsarist empire crumbled and the Bolsheviks seized control. Sukhanov chronicles the dramatic events of 1917 with unparalleled intimacy, placing the reader inside the smoke-filled meeting rooms and frenzied streets of Petrograd, where Lenin, Trotsky, and a cast of revolutionary figures argued, plotted, and ultimately transformed the course of the modern world. His narrative is at once a political document and a deeply human portrait of a society tearing itself apart and remaking itself anew. Originally published in Russian as Zapiski O Revoliutsii, this abridged English translation — edited and rendered by Joel Carmichael — makes one of the most significant primary sources of 20th-century history accessible to a wider readership without sacrificing its passionate, almost novelistic intensity. Sukhanov's prose bristles with ideological conviction and the urgency of lived experience, offering a perspective that neither glorifies nor entirely condemns any single faction, making it an indispensable counterpoint to both Soviet hagiography and Western anti-communist narratives. For anyone seeking to truly understand what it felt and looked like to witness a revolution from the inside, this account remains as electrifying today as the events it so vividly captures.
Author: N. N. Sukhanov
Format: Hardback
Published: 1955, Oxford University Press
Genre: European history
Edition: 1st ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good condition
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Fold-out maps intact.
Few eyewitness accounts of history's most seismic upheavals carry the raw authority of The Russian Revolution 1917: A Personal Record — a memoir written from the very heart of the storm by Nikolai Nikolaevich Sukhanov, a Menshevik journalist and political activist who stood at the crossroads of power as the Tsarist empire crumbled and the Bolsheviks seized control. Sukhanov chronicles the dramatic events of 1917 with unparalleled intimacy, placing the reader inside the smoke-filled meeting rooms and frenzied streets of Petrograd, where Lenin, Trotsky, and a cast of revolutionary figures argued, plotted, and ultimately transformed the course of the modern world. His narrative is at once a political document and a deeply human portrait of a society tearing itself apart and remaking itself anew. Originally published in Russian as Zapiski O Revoliutsii, this abridged English translation — edited and rendered by Joel Carmichael — makes one of the most significant primary sources of 20th-century history accessible to a wider readership without sacrificing its passionate, almost novelistic intensity. Sukhanov's prose bristles with ideological conviction and the urgency of lived experience, offering a perspective that neither glorifies nor entirely condemns any single faction, making it an indispensable counterpoint to both Soviet hagiography and Western anti-communist narratives. For anyone seeking to truly understand what it felt and looked like to witness a revolution from the inside, this account remains as electrifying today as the events it so vividly captures.