Inside the Russian Revolution
An Eyewitness Account of Petrograd, Soldiers' Councils, Land and Labor, and Women's Fight for Citizenship in 1917By Rheta Louise Childe Dorr
Length7h 8m
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Rheta Louise Childe Dorr's *Inside the Russian Revolution* is a journalist's vivid account of Russia during the political upheavals of 1917, tracing the collapse of tsarism, the provisional government, and the revolutionary forces contending for power. Combining eyewitness reportage, political interpretation, and sharply observed social detail, Dorr presents streets, factories, soldiers, and public meetings as arenas in which historical change becomes immediate human experience. Its accessible, urgent prose belongs to the tradition of early twentieth-century investigative journalism, while its proximity to events gives it the distinctive value—and inevitable partiality—of a contemporary primary source. The book is particularly revealing in its effort to interpret revolution for an English-speaking democratic audience. Dorr was an American journalist, editor, and prominent advocate of women's suffrage whose career joined political reform to public education. Her professional engagement with progressive causes and her experience reporting on international affairs prepared her to view Russia not as an abstract ideological problem but as a society undergoing a profound transformation. Her 1917 journey brought her into contact with revolutionary politics at a moment when Americans were debating democracy, labor, gender, and the First World War. These commitments shaped both her sympathy for popular aspirations and her critical scrutiny of revolutionary leadership. This book is recommended to readers interested in Russian history, revolutionary movements, women's political writing, and the development of modern reportage. It offers both a compelling narrative and a valuable historical document, especially when read alongside later scholarship that can assess Dorr's interpretations and limitations. *Inside the Russian Revolution* remains an illuminating window onto how contemporaries understood a world being remade.
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GenreHistory
Length7 hrs 8 mins
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FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateMar 25, 2022
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The History of the Great and Mighty Kingdom of China (Annotated)
2Chapter I. Topsy-Turvy Land
3Chapter II. “All the Power to the Soviet”
4Chapter III. The July Revolution
5Chapter IV. An Hour of Hope
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6Chapter V. The Committee Mania
7Chapter VI. The Woman With the Gun
8Chapter VII. To the Front With Botchkareva
9Chapter VIII. In Camp and Battlefield
10Chapter IX. Amazons in Training
11Chapter X. The Homing Exiles—two Kinds
12Chapter XI. How Rasputin Died
13Chapter XII. Anna Virubova Speaks
14Chapter XIII. More Leaves in the Current
15Chapter XIV. The Passing of the Romanoffs
16Chapter XV. The House of Mary and Martha
17Chapter XVI. The Tavarishi Face Famine
18Chapter XVII. General January, the Conqueror
19Chapter XVIII. When the Workers Own Their Tools
20Chapter XIX. Why Cotton Cloth Is Scarce
21Chapter XX. Mrs. Pankhurst in Russia
22Chapter XXI. Kerensky, the Mystery Man
23Chapter XXII. The Rights of Small Nations
24Chapter XXIII. Will the Germans Take Petrograd?
25Chapter XXIV. Russia’s Greatest Needs
26Chapter XXV. What Next?
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