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A Russian civil war diary : Alexis Babine in Saratov, 1917-1922 by Alexis Vasilevich Babine (author), Raleigh, Jay Richard Judson (editor) is a biography available to read on EtoBox.

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"There are very few surviving memoirs by witnesses to the tragic events in revolutionary Russia between 1917 and 1922. Babine's diary is particularly useful because it reflects the experiences and thinking of an average member of the provincial middle class .... "The diary has been well edited by Professor Raleigh, a specialist on Saratov, who has added useful annotations and a preface .... Babine restores to historical discourse a sense of what it was like to live through a time of great uncertainty and confusion, when orderly government had broken down and one's fate might well be determined by the whim of some informer or political gangster. It should be read with appreciation by [those] interested in the circumstances in which the Soviet regime was born." -John Keep, University of Toronto In the fall of 1917, Alexis V. Babine, a Russian-born American educated at Cornell University, accepted an appointment as instructor in English at the newly opened university in the Russian provincial capital of Saratov. That October, the Russian Revolution broke out, followed by a cataclysmic civil war. Babine remained in Saratov as a teacher throughout most of the Civil War; this is his diar

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Author

Alexis Vasilevich Babine (author), Raleigh, Jay Richard Judson (editor)

Publisher

Duke University Press

Published

1988

Language

EN

ISBN

9780822308355

Category

biography

Subjects

Memoir, History, Biography

Updated

2026-03-25