Dispatches from the Revolution: Russia 1916-1918 - Softcover

Price, Morgan Philips

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0822320738 ISBN 13: 9780822320739

Publisher: Duke University Press, 1997

Synopsis

A special correspondent for the Manchester Guardian, Morgan Philips Price was one of the few Englishmen in Russia during all phases of the Revolution. Although his Bolshevik sympathies accorded him an insider’s perspective on much of the turmoil, his reports were often heavily revised or suppressed. In Dispatches from the Revolution, Tania Rose collects for the first time Price’s correspondence from Russia—official and unofficial, published and unpublished—to reveal a side of Russian life and politics that fell largely unreported in the years before, during, and after the Revolution.
This collection includes Price’s pre-censored observations and comment, written for a range of British publications, as well as letters, postcards, and other writings. A foreword by Eric Hobsbawm and introductory material by Rose place Price’s observations in biographical and historical context. Dispatches from the Revolution offers an account of the Russian Revolution from an eyewitness whose political commitment, fluency in Russian, and extensive travel far beyond the cities permitted him to write, uniquely, not only of metropolitan news and politics, but also of the experiences and issues signficant to ordinary peasants, workers, and soldiers in remote areas of the Russian empire.
An important source to scholars of Russian history, this book will also appeal to general readers with interests in Russia, journalism, and world affairs.

About this title

About the Author

Morgan Philips Price was a journalist and the author of numerous books on Russian history and politics. For thirty years he was a member of the British Parliament.
Tania Rose is the author of Political Censorship in Britian.

Morgan Philips Price was a journalist and the author of numerous books on Russian history and politics. For thirty years he was a member of the British Parliament.
Tania Rose is the author of Political Censorship in Britian.

From the Back Cover

"This is an extraordinarily valuable compilation of Price's . . . writings about the Revolution. . . . The value of Price's writings lies not so much in the good journalist's nose for the headline event, as in the background of knowledge about the Russian Empire he brought to his reporting."--Eric Hobsbawm, "from the foreword"

Edition details

• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Publication date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0822320738
• ISBN 13: 9780822320739
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 195
• Editor: Rose Tania