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Russia From The American Embassy

by David R. Francis

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 <p>David R. Francis held the post of the United States ambassador to Russia from April 1916 to November 1918, and represented his country before four Russian governments: the Imperial, Provisional, Soviet, and Northern. He was an eyewitness of the greatest events in the history of Russia: World War I, the February Revolution, the downfall of the empire, the October Revolution, and the Civil War. During the two and half years of his residence in Russia, Francis met prominent figures such as Nicholas II, the last Russian emperor, and Vladimir I. Lenin, the first Soviet leader. Francis s diplomatic experience was unique and had no parallel in the history of Russian-American relations which is why his memoirs are of special interest for historians and the general public alike.</p>
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Inside The Russian Revolution

by Rheta Childe Dorr

~~33,11€~~ 29,80€ 10% OFF

 This is the first republication of Rheta Child Dorrâ€™s book Inside the Russian Revolution (Macmillan, 1917) that depicts the overthrow of the tsar as a positive, democratic move with hope of a Russia following the American path to constitutional democracy.
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Village: Russian Impressions

by Ernest Poole

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 Chicago native, political activist, and journalist Ernest Poole (1880-1950) provides a distinctive view of the Bolshevik Revolution in his work, The Village: Russian Impressions. This work is unusual in the library of American accounts of Revolutionary Russia because it addresses the world of the Russian peasants, far away from the revolutionary centers of Petrograd and Moscow. He associated with a Russian priest, a doctor, a teacher, and a mill owner who offered a perspective not normally seen in the history of the Bolshevik Revolution. Poole's own views and those of the people he visited provide a fascinating account of the revolutionary era that helps readers a century later understand the complexity of this fascinating time.
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Surgeon Grow - An American In The Russian Fighting

~~33,11€~~ 29,80€ 10% OFF

 Malcolm Grow's commentary presents us with a fascinating personal account of wartime experience, one that highlights a number of pertinent issues of Russia's experience of total war. While military historiography is replete with studies of battle plans and strategies, troop movements, numbers of casualties, territorial gains, and decisions of state actors, war is so much more than these, as a fundamentally human experience. Unlike most other foreigners' accounts of Russia's war, written by journalists, diplomats, or civilian observers who spent little, if any, time at the "front," Grow's narrative provides a firsthand perspective of someone embedded with the Russian troops. Although his primary duty as a regimental doctor was medical care of wounded and ill soldiers, Grow's narrative focuses much attention on combat, particularly his experiences observing operations from the trenches-even occasionally being drawn into the fighting. His narrative clearly reveals how lines of separation between combatants and non-combatants were blurred on the Eastern Front, where the war was highly mobile and divisions between "front" and "rear" were difficult to maintain. As a result, medical personnel were exposed to dangers, deprivations, and physical and psychological traumas that paralleled the experiences of combatants. Grow also offers his observations of the Russian revolutions of 1917 and their effects on the army. Although he does so through a distinctly American lens and thus reflects some (mis)conceptions held by Americans and other Westerners, his narrative also defies some of these conventions, and provides us with a unique and intimate look at life on the Russian front.
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&Quote;The Bolshevik Revolution Had Descended On Me&Quote; Madeleine Z. Doty'S Russian Revolution

by Madeleine Z. Doty

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 In 1917-that is, in the midst of the First World War-Madeleine Z. Doty, a feminist, lawyer, prison reformer, peace activist, and journalist, was commissioned by the magazine Good Housekeeping to travel "around the world" to get a view "behind the battle line" of how people on the home front, especially women, were responding to the war. Traveling on the Trans-Siberian Railway from China, Doty crossed the border into Russia just days after the Bolshevik Revolution had begun. She meant it literally when she declared in her account of these travels, Behind the Battle Line: Around the World in 1918: "The Bolshevik Revolution had descended on me."Having found herself serendipitously arriving in St. Petersburg (then called Petrograd) as history was being made, Doty made plans to extend her visit, staying in Russia for four months, and documenting the revolution as it unfolded, as well as particular elements of it in revolutionary Russia that interested her, such as the justice and penal system and women s leadership. She also offered a strikingly textured portrait of Russian-German peace negotiations at Brest-Litovsk. When Behind the Battle Line was published, critics noted that the Russian chapters are richest, but combined as they are with discussion of Japan, Korea, Norway, France, Sweden, China, and England, Doty s account of the Bolshevik Revolution has not gotten the attention it deserves. This book offers Doty s writings on Russia and the Bolshevik Revolution as a stand-alone volume (supplemented with explanatory footnotes) along with an introduction providing background on Doty herself and the milieu of suffragists, reformers, professionals, and journalists in New York City, of which she was an important part.
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Trailing The Bolsheviki - Twelve Thousand Miles With The Allies In Siberia

by Carl W. Ackerman

~~33,11€~~ 29,80€ 10% OFF

 A special correspondent of The New York Times, Carl W. Ackerman traveled from Vladivostok to Irkutsk to Omsk to Ekaterinburg in the fall of 1918 in the midst of the Russian Civil War. He met with officers of the American and Japanese expeditionary forces, with members of the Czecho-Slovak corps fighting the Red Army, with ministers of the democratic Russian government in Omsk, and with military dictator Admiral Alexander Kolchak, who became the ruler of anti-Bolshevik Russia after a coup that displaced the Democrats. In fact, Ackerman was the first foreign journalist who visited the Ipatiev House in Eka-terinburg, the place of Tsar Nicholas II and his family's imprisonment until they were murdered in July 1918. With his notes and newspaper articles to consult, Ackerman wrote Trailing the Bolsheviki soon after his return to the United States. His book was one of the very first American accounts of the Russian Civil War in Siberia and the Far East, providing his readers with the wealth of his observation and the entertainment of his travel feats. Moreover, Ackerman was among the first Americans to notice the basic split between the new political system materializing in Russia and the universalism of the Woodrow Wilson approach. Thus, he became one of the proponents of the first Red Scare and an early forerunner of the Cold War.
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John R. Mott, The American Ymca, And Revolutionary Russia

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 John R. Mott's Recent Experiences and Impressions in Russia presents a collection of public addresses and letters created during his participation in a United States diplomatic mission to Russia-sent by President Woodrow Wilson and led by Elihu Root-from May to August 1917. These historical documents (printed in 1917 but never published) describe this Root Mission and offer perspectives on several momentous events and leaders of the era: World War I, the February Revolution, officials of the Provisional Government, and clergy of the Russian Orthodox Church. Mott, a key leader of global outreach for the Young Men's Christian Association of the US, stands out as an influential Protestant leader of this era. In 1946, he received the Nobel Peace Prize in recognition of his life-long effort to promote cooperative ministry around the world. The documents in this volume include Mott's proposal for the YMCA to carry out a program of social, educational, and spiritual assistance among Russia's military, as well as relevant chapters from Service with Fighting Men: An Account of the Work of the American Young Men's Christian Associations in the World War (published in 1924), which outlines and evaluates the activities carried out in Russia in response to Mott's plans. Together, these writings illustrate the variety of assumptions, convictions, and relationships that contributed to a very significant episode of Russian-American interaction.
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Six Red Months In Russia - An Observer'S Account Of Russia Before And During The Proletarian Dictatorship

by Louise Bryant

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 This new edition of Bryant's book is annotated and set in its appropriate historical context to create a more accessible text for modern readers on the anniversary of this truly world-changing event.
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Unchained Russia

by Charles Edward Russell

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 Charles Edward Russell was a major intellectual and political figure of the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century United States. As a very well-known American radical, he published many books on the US economy, the condition of workers, social issues, and other subjects.
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Russia In Upheaval

by Edward Alsworth Ross

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 Edward Alsworth Ross, one of the founders of the academic field of sociology, spent JulyDecember 1917 traveling across the Russian Empire and talking to the people there. As he states in his brief introduction, "I have taken it as my business to describe impartially the major social changes going on in Russia ... in the latter half of 1917, and leave it to others or to time itself to judge them."
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Ten Days That Shook The World

by John Reed

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 Another view of Russia on the eve of revolutionThe author is an interesting person his own right as an American who became enamored with fascism
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Ten Days That Shook The World

by John Reed

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 Another view of Russia on the eve of revolutionThe author is an interesting person his own right as an American who became enamored with fascism
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Donald Thompson In Russia

by Donald Thompson

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 Donald Thompson in Russia is a compilation of letters to his wife Dorothy in Topeka, Kansas, illustrated with photos. First published in 1918, it outlines Thompsonâ€™s conspiracy thesis that :German intrigue, working among the unthinking masses, has brought Russia to her present woeful condition.â€
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Inside The Russian Revolution

by Rheta Childe Dorr

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 This is the first republication of Rheta Child Dorrâ€™s book Inside the Russian Revolution (Macmillan, 1917) that depicts the overthrow of the tsar as a positive, democratic move with hope of a Russia following the American path to constitutional democracy.
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Inside The Russian Revolution

by Rheta Childe Dorr

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 This is the first republication of Rheta Child Dorrâ€™s book Inside the Russian Revolution (Macmillan, 1917) that depicts the overthrow of the tsar as a positive, democratic move with hope of a Russia following the American path to constitutional democracy.
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Potential Russia

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 Richard Washburn Child travelled to Russia in 1916 on the eve of its dramatic revolutions and describes what he observes, making a case for American investment in the country before other nations take advantage of the opportunity.
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Unchained Russia

by Charles Edward Russell

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 Charles Edward Russell was a major intellectual and political figure of the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century United States. As a very well-known American radical, he published many books on the US economy, the condition of workers, social issues, and other subjects.
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Â€Œthe Bolshevik Revolution Had Descended On Meâ€ Madeleine Z. Dotyâ€™S Russian Revolution

by Madeleine Z. Doty

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Â€Œthe Bolshevik Revolution Had Descended On Meâ€ Madeleine Z. Dotyâ€™S Russian Revolution

by Madeleine Z. Doty

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A Diary Of The Russian Revolution

by Jr., James L. Houghteling

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 This book presents Houghtelingâ€™s original account along with explanatory notes and an introduction that sets the diary in the wider context of American interpretations and misinterpretations of the revolutions of 1917 that did so much to shape the twentieth century."
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A Diary Of The Russian Revolution

by Jr., James L. Houghteling

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 This book presents Houghtelingâ€™s original account along with explanatory notes and an introduction that sets the diary in the wider context of American interpretations and misinterpretations of the revolutions of 1917 that did so much to shape the twentieth century."
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Intimate Letters From Petrograd

by Pauline S. Crosley

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Intimate Letters From Petrograd

by Pauline S. Crosley

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Trailing The Bolsheviki - Twelve Thousand Miles With The Allies In Siberia

by Carl W. Ackerman

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