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Helen Rappaport's masterful revealing to of the outbreak of the Russian Trend through eyewitness accounts remaining by overseas nationals who observed the theatre unfold. Between the first revolution in Feb 1917 and Lenin's Bolshevik coup in October, Petrograd was at turmoil - felt nowhere more keenly than on the popular Nevsky Prospekt, where the foreign guests and diplomats who crammed hotels, clubs, bars and embassies were acutely aware of the chaos breaking out. Among this disparate group were journalists, entrepreneurs, volunteer nurses and expatriate socialites. Many maintained diaries and wrote letters home. Helen Rappaport attracts upon this abundant trove of material to carry us right up to the action - to see, feel and notice the revolution as it just happened.
