Length6h 58m
About this audiobook
In 1917, as the flames of revolution engulfed Russia, a bold young American journalist named Louise Bryant embarked on a perilous journey into the heart of the storm. Defying convention and danger, she spent six tumultuous months traversing a nation in the throes of radical transformation, from the starving streets of Petrograd to the battle-scarred countryside.
Six Red Months in Russia is Bryant’s electrifying, first-hand account of history in the making. With a reporter’s keen eye and a humanist’s empathy, she provides an intimate, ground-level view of the Bolsheviks’ rise to power, the collapse of the old order, and the chaotic birth of the Soviet state. She doesn’t merely interview the revolutionary titans—Lenin, Trotsky, Kerensky—but captures the hopes, fears, and grim realities of ordinary soldiers, peasants, and factory workers living through upheaval.
Not simply a political chronicle, this is a vivid tapestry of a society tearing itself apart and struggling to be reborn. Bryant documents the fervor, the idealism, the brutal violence, and the crushing hardship with unmatched immediacy. Her prose crackles with the urgency of a witness who knows the world is watching.
A classic of journalistic daring, Six Red Months in Russia offers an indispensable, compellingly personal perspective on one of the twentieth century’s defining events, written by a pioneering woman who was there to see it all.
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GenreHistory, Politics and Government
Length6 hrs 58 mins
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FormateBook with Audio
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Introduction
17CHAPTER XVI: FROM ONE ARMY TO THE OTHER
2CHAPTER I: ON THE WAY TO RUSSIA
18CHAPTER XVII: RED GUARDS AND COSSACKS
3CHAPTER II: FROM THE FRONTIER TO PETROGRAD
19CHAPTER XVIII: THE RED BURIAL
4CHAPTER III: PETROGRAD
20CHAPTER XIX: REVOLUTIONARY TRIBUNAL
5CHAPTER IV: SMOLNY
21CHAPTER XX: THE FOREIGN OFFICE
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6CHAPTER V: EXPLANATION OF POLITICAL PARTIES
22CHAPTER XXI: WOMEN SOLDIERS
7 CHAPTER VI: THE DEMOCRATIC CONGRESS
23CHAPTER XXII: FREE SPEECH
8CHAPTER VII: THE PREPARLIAMENT AND THE SOVIET OF THE RUSSIAN REPUBLIC
24CHAPTER XXIII: STREET FIGHTING
9CHAPTER VIII: THE FALL OF THE WINTER PALACE
25CHAPTER XXIV: MEN OF HONOUR
10CHAPTER IX: THE CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY
26CHAPTER XXV: GERMAN PROPAGANDA
11CHAPTER X: KATHERINE BRESHKOVSKY
27CHAPTER XXVI: RUSSIAN CHILDREN
12CHAPTER XI: KERENSKY
28CHAPTER XXVII: THE DECLINE OF THE CHURCH
13CHAPTER XII: TWO MINISTERS OF WELFARE--PANINA AND KOLLONTAY
29CHAPTER XXVIII: ODDS AND ENDS OF REVOLUTION
14CHAPTER XIII: LENINE AND TROTSKY
30CHAPTER XXIX: A TALK WITH THE ENEMY
15CHAPTER XIV: A TRIUMVIRATE
31CHAPTER XXX: SHOPPING IN GERMANY
16CHAPTER XV: MARIE SPIRODONOVA
32CHAPTER XXXI: ADVENTURES AS A BOLSHEVIK COURIER
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