Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 322
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Trim: 6⅜ x 9
978-1-5381-8098-3 • Hardback • August 2023 • $40.00 • (£30.00)
978-1-5381-8100-3 • eBook • August 2023 • $37.00 • (£30.00)
Evelyn M. Cherpak holds a PhD in Latin American history. She has taught courses in Latin American history and the role of women in Latin America at Salve Regina University, the University of Rhode Island, and the Naval War College, where she served as archivist and curator of special collections. Author of over fifty historical and bibliographical articles, this is her fifth book.
Evelyn Cherpak’s insightful collection contains sixteen well-chosen gems. Among them, naval historians will particularly value the insights of Pauline Crosley, the wife of the U.S. naval attaché at Petrograd in 1917.
— Roxanne Easley, Central Washington University
This well-chosen and diverse collection of letters and memoirs offers vivid descriptions of Russia customs, politics, and personalities, from tsars and courtiers to peasants and Bolsheviks. The women’s writings express both fascination and condescension toward Russia and Russians, identifying them as fundamentally different from the West.
— Adele Lindenmeyr, Villanova University
A very useful addition to the accessible historical record. Evelyn Cherpak has collected eyewitness accounts of Russia by foreign visitors, from the late eighteenth century reign of Catherine the Great to the mid twentieth century rule of Joseph Stalin. Ranging from the observations of a princess to the revolutionary anarchist Emma Goldman, these excerpts provide a rich, detailed series of vignettes which provide distinct insights into Russian and Soviet society.
— Rochelle Goldberg Ruthchild, research associate at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University