War, Revolution, and Peace in Russia: The Passages of Frank Golder, 1914-1927The American historian Frank Golder (1877–1929) was an eyewitness to some of the most historic events in modern Russian history. He was in St. Petersburg when tsarist Russia entered World War I in 1914. He returned to the city—now Petrograd—eleven days before the fall of Nicholas II in 1917 and witnessed the February Revolution that overthrew Russia's autocracy. He served as a relief worker and unofficial political observer for the US government during the Great Famine of 1921. In later visits, he beheld the changes in Soviet society after the death of Lenin. Golder faithfully recorded his impressions in diaries and letters, now in the holdings of the Hoover Institution Library & Archives. His writings from Russia detail the dramatic events he observed, from the final years of the Romanov dynasty to the beginnings of Stalinism. Among the events he describes are encounters with key figures in the Russian Revolution, backdoor negotiations between Washington and Moscow on the issues of trade and political recognition, and meetings with prominent Russian ÉmigrÉs from which learned the fate of the old-regime intelligentsia. Golder's writings provide a firsthand account of the tumultuous events that transformed Russian politics, society, and culture. |
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... interesting ( and at least in part inaccurate ) anecdotal glimpse of Golder's early life , see Bluma Bayuk Rappoport Purmell and Felice Lewis Rovner , A Farmer's Daughter : Bluma ( Los Angeles , 1981 ) , pp . 56-60 . Biographical ...
... interesting and amusing scene today . There was a big demonstration with flags and cheering . Some one started the hymn " God Save the Tsar " and the rest took it up . A moment later somebody else started the revolutionary ...
... interesting old man and we sat up until two in the morning talking Russia and the war . He did not resent Germany attacking Russia , a country of its size , but jumping on a little nation like Belgium was , he thought , low and cowardly ...
... interesting , for I find new things every day and I am sorry to see four o'clock when the archives close . I shall write you again when I have an opportunity . With all good wishes , From your friend , Wednesday , March 8/21 Spent the ...
... interesting and it came so quickly that it was difficult to realize what had happened . Until the emperor had abdicated I could not believe that the revolution was un fait accompli . I did not spend much time indoors while it was going ...
Contents
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CHAPTER FOUR | 161 |
BOLSHEVISM AT A CROSSROADS | 237 |
1927 | 248 |
CHAPTER SEVEN | 339 |
APPENDIX | 347 |
INDEX 1353 | 353 |
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War, Revolution, and Peace in Russia: The Passages of Frank Golder, 1914-1927 Frank Alfred Golder No preview available - 1992 |