Witnesses to the Russian Revolution
Routledge Library Editions: The Russian Revolution Series

This volume, originally published in 1964, presents a series of slides illustrating the major events of the Russian Revolution. Gathering together many accounts from the memoirs of innumerable people from every walk of life and political frame of mind: communists and tsarists, foreign journalists and ambassadors in Petrograd, Russian soldiers at the front and peasants in the countryside. The accounts of the witnesses allow the reader to relive the chaos and the high drama of the revolution through their eyes and experiences.

Introduction. Chronology. Plan of Petrograd 1. 1905 2. The Years Between: 1906 – March 1917 3. The March Days 4. The Interlude: March – November 1917 5. The November Revolution 6. Postscript to a Revolution