Zimnii dvorets. Oktiabr' 1917: Sbornik vospominanii uchastnikov Oktiabr'skoi revoliutsii (The Winter Palace. October 1917: memoirs of participants in the the October revolution)
St. Petersburg: Herm, 2017. Pb. These memoirs written years and sometimes decades after the October 1917 revolution by those who were there cannot be considered precise records owing to the slipperiness of memory and the tendentiousness of differing political positions. What gives them value is their ability to evoke the drama of the moment, when willy-nilly they were involved in an event that changed Russia and the world. The writers represent different views: for example, Vladimir A. Antonov-Ovseenko, who led the storm of the Winter Palace on the night of October 26, 1917, helped organize the Red Army, and was eventually arrested and shot; Maria Bocharinkova, member of the women's "Battalion of Death," all of whom volunteered to defend the Winter Palace; Anatolii V. Lunacharskii, after the revolution first people's commissar for education; Pavel N. Maliantovich, a defense lawyer for revolutionaries during the last years of the Empire, minister of justice for the Provisional Government, arrested and shot in the 1930s; Oswald G. von Prussing, one of officers responsible for the defense of the Winter Palace under the Provisional Government. 162 p., 24 cm, approx.. 30 b/w illus., Rus. Item #2590
ISBN: 9785935727529
run: 500.
Price: $29.00