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From New York Times best-selling author of The Romanov Sisters, Caught in the Revolution is Helen Rappaport's masterful showing of the outbreak of the Russian Revolution through eyewitness accounts still left by overseas nationals who found the play unfold. Between the first revolution in Feb 1917 and Lenin's Bolshevik coup in Oct, Petrograd (the ex - St. Petersburg) is at turmoil - experienced nowhere more keenly than on the elegant Nevsky Prospekt. There, the overseas visitors who loaded hotels, clubs, offices, and embassies were acutely alert to the chaos breaking from their doorsteps and beneath their glass windows. Among this disparate group were journalists, diplomats, businessmen, bankers, governesses, volunteer nurses, and expatriate socialites. Many placed diaries and wrote characters home: from an English nurse who acquired already survived the sinking of the Titanic to the dark-colored valet of the US ambassador, far from his indigenous Deep South, to suffragette innovator Emmeline Pankhurst, who acquired come to Petrograd to check the indomitable Women's Loss of life Battalion led by Maria Bochkareva. Helen Rappaport attracts upon this rich trove of materials, much of it previously unpublished, to transport us right up to the action - to see, feel, and notice the revolution as it just happened to an assortment of individuals who abruptly felt themselves caught in a "red madhouse". This program includes a bonus offer interview with the writer and her editor.