Donald J. Raleigh, editor. A Russian Civil War Diary. Alexis Babine in Saratov, 1917-1922. "There are very few surviving memoirs by witnesses to the tragic events in Revolutionary Russia between 1917 and 1922." In the fall of 1917, 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 began, followed by the Civil War. Babine remained in Saratov throughout most of this time period; this is his diary richly detailing the terrible daily struggle to survive. The diary provides day-to-day insights into the mind of someone experiencing first-hand the revolutionary process. NC (Durham): Duke University Press, 1988. Brand new hard cover with dustjacket in mint condition. 240 pages. Preface, bibliography and index. [#MR-CVD1]

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