Caught in the Revolution: Witnesses to the Fall of Imperial Russia Children's Books Winner of the 2014 PEN

Winner of the 2014 PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize for the Best Work of History

that extreme ideologies such as fascism would take shape and ultimately emerge triumphant

President Woodrow Wilson

provided vital services that put them squarely in traditionally "masculine" territory

The York-like episode that earned Barkley his Congressional Medal of Honor occurred on October 7

Caught in the Revolution: Witnesses to the Fall of Imperial Russia Children's Books Winner of the 2014 PENDescription by Helen Rappaport Paperback Between the first revolution in February 1917 and Lenins Bolshevik coup in October, Petrograd (the former St Petersburg) was in turmoil felt nowhere more keenly than on the fashionable Nevsky Prospekt. There, the foreign visitors who filled hotels, clubs, offices and embassies were acutely aware of the chaos breaking out on their doorsteps and beneath their windows. Among this disparate group were journalists,