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Caught in the Revolution: Witnesses to the Fall of Imperial Russia Children's Books in which Figes follows theDescription 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,