“The Bolshevik Revolution Had Descended on Me” Madeleine Z. Doty’s Russian Revolution
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- ISBN 9781839997532
- Weight: 454g
- Dimensions: 153 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 02 Dec 2025
- Publisher: Anthem Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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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 when she declared in her account of these travels, Behind the Battle Line: Around the World in 1918: “The Bolshevik Revolution had descended on me.”
Julia L. Mickenberg is professor of American studies at the University of Texas at Austin. She is author of Learning from the Left: Children’s Literature, the Cold War, and Radical Politics in the United States and co-editor of Tales for Little Rebels: A Collection of Radical Children’s Literature.
