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Hutchinson has acquired a new book by historian Helen Rappaport, telling the story of the first year of the Russian Revolution.
Senior editor Sarah Rigby acquired UK and Commonwealth rights, excluding Canada, to Caught in the Revolution: Petrograd 1917, at auction from Caroline Michel at PFD.
Caught in the Revolution will tell its story using eye-witness accounts of the foreign nationals at the heart of Petrograd.
Rigby said of Rappaport: “She has an ability to bring her readers close to the action, allowing us to encounter her subjects as real individuals living under exceptional circumstances.
“Through their eyes we will see, feel and hear the revolution as it happens.”
Rappaport said: “Hunting down revolution eyewitnesses has been something of an obsession for the last 10 years or so, during which time I have accumulated a wonderful and eclectic range of published and unpublished material that will surprise readers with its humour, incisiveness, drama and vivid of-the-moment take on events in the city.”
Rappaport’s most recent book was Four Sisters: The Lost Lives of the Romanov Grand Duchesses (Macmillan), released this year. She has also previously published books with Windmill.
Caught in the Revolution: Petrograd 1917 will be published in hardback and e-book in early 2017 to coincide with the 100-year anniversary of the Russian Revolution, with a Windmill paperback following.