"The Bolshevik Revolution Had Descended on Me" Madeleine Z. Doty's Russian Revolution - Madeleine Z. Doty

In 1917-that is, in the midst of the First World War-Madeleine Z. Doty, a feminist, lawyer, prison reformer, peace activist, and journalist, was commissioned by the magazine Good Housekeeping to travel "around the world" to get a view "behind the battle line" of how people on the home front, especially women, were responding to the war. Traveling on the Trans-Siberian Railway from China, Doty crossed the border into Russia just days after the Bolshevik Revolution had begun. She meant it literally... Zobrazit více