Caught in the Revolution: Witnesses to the Fall of Imperial Russia Children's Books President Woodrow Wilson

President Woodrow Wilson

and the enthusiasm and tragedy of Socialism

by his own family

he could not keep pace: he suffered a disabling stroke in July

The fuse to the First World War was lit in the Balkans where simmering hatreds exploded into violence

Caught in the Revolution: Witnesses to the Fall of Imperial Russia Children's Books President Woodrow WilsonDescription by Helen Rappaport Paperback Between the first revolution in February 1917 and Lenins Bolshevik coup in October, Petrograd (the former St Petersburg) was in turmoil felt nowhere more keenly than on the fashionable Nevsky Prospekt. There, the foreign visitors who filled hotels, clubs, offices and embassies were acutely aware of the chaos breaking out on their doorsteps and beneath their windows. Among this disparate group were journalists,