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🎧 Schools Festival Audio: The Russian Revolution
Helen Rappaport
28/06/2017
Audio from Chalke Valley History Festival for Schools 2017 with Helen Rappaport
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Revolution necessitates talk of insurgency and transformation - this is not the most evident narrative with which state power should wish to engage. Yet elsewhere we can see lively discussion of the potentialities of history and possibilities for change that any discussion of 1917 should evoke.
Read MoreSpeaking at CVHF in 2017, Helen Rappaport looks at the Russian Revolution from an entirely new perspective - that of a wide range of foreign nationals living in Petrograd in 1917 who witnessed history being made on the streets. Through their eyes we see Russian history in the making, revealing the unravelling of the revolution over the course of one single year in the heart of the war-torn capital.
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