Eyewitness 1917
The Russian Revolution through Eyewitness Accounts
$48.79
- Hardcover
304 pages
- Release Date
10 June 2019
Summary
A dramatic account of a year of two revolutions in Russia, told through extracts from contemporary diaries, letters and memoirs and illustrated with many previously unpublished photographs. In the lead-up to the centenary of the Russian Revolution in 2017, a team of researchers led by writer Mikhail Zygar posed a question: how to make the story of one of the most extraordinary years in Russian and world history relevant to today? Their answer lay in going back to the source material - dia…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781906257279 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1906257272 |
| Author: | Mikhail Zygar, Karen Shainyan, Andrey Borzenko, Mikhail Degtyarev, Serafim Orekhanov, Yuri Saprykin, Victoria Malyutina |
| Publisher: | Fontanka |
| Imprint: | Fontanka |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 304 |
| Release Date: | 10 June 2019 |
| Weight: | 880g |
| Dimensions: | 290mm x 220mm |
About The Author
Mikhail Zygar
Mikhail Zygar, founder and director of Project1917, is a Russian journalist and former editor-in-chief of the only independent TV station in Russian, TV Rain (Dozhd). His most recent book is All the Kremlin’s Men: Inside the Court of Vladimir Putin (Perseus, 2016). Karen Shainyan is co-founder and executive director of Project1917. Clem Cecil is director of Pushkin House in London.
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