Time of Troubles: The Diary of Iurii Vladimirovich Got'e

548 Pages·1988·38.586 MB·English

by  Iurii Vladimirovich Got'e, Terence Emmons

TIME OF TROUBLES
Sponsored by the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace,
Stanford University, Stanford, California.
TIME OF TROUBLES
The Diary oflurii Vladimirovich Got'e
- MOSCOW -
July 8, igiy to July 23, 1()22
Translated, Edited, and Introduced by
Terence Emmons
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(from the preface to
The French Revolution)

Contents
*
List of Illustrations IX
Acknowledgments XI
A Note to the Reader XIII
List of Frequently Used Abbreviations xv
Chronology of Principal Events XVII
Got'e and His Diary 3
My Observations: Lament on the Downfall of the Russian Land 25
1917 27
1918 95
1919 227
1920 328
1921 397
1922 442
Appendix 463
Index of Personal Names 497

List of Illustrations
*
Map i. Russian in World War I—1914 to the Revolution of 1917 2
Map 2. Revolution and Civil War in European Russia, 1917-1922 172
(Following page 268)
i. Archibald Cary Coolidge (1866-1928)
2. M. M. Bogoslovskii (1867-1929)
3. M. K. Liubavskii (1860-1936)
4. S. F. Platonov (1860-1933)
5. A. K. Vinogradov (1887-1946)
6. The Supreme Council of the People's Commissariat of Enlightenment
(Reproduced from Sheila Fitzpatrick, The Commissariat of Enlighten
ment (1970, Cambridge University Press)
7. Unloading a barge of firewood for the museum (August 9, 1920)
8. "On Arbat Square there are trenches and barbed-wire barriers" (No
vember 5, 1917)
9. Unprocessed acquisitions in the Rumiantsev Museum (1922) (Courtesy
of the Hoover Institution Archives)
10. "My wife is being ordered to shovel snow tomorrow" (January 5,
!9J9)
11. Patriarch Tikhon and Metropolitan Veniamin (1922)
12. Inessa Armand and her children (1914)
13. The Metropole Hotel in November 1917
14. The Rumiantsev Museum (1922) (Courtesy of the Hoover Institution
Archives)
15. Frank A. Golder (1877-1929) (Courtesy of the Hoover Institution Ar
chives)
16. "Today they ... removed the crown from Alexander III, and the
eagles sitting on his pedestal" (April 30, 1918)
17. Map of central Moscow
18. Townspeople dismantling a wooden house for firewood (1919) (Cour
tesy of Boris Sokolov Collection I Hoover Institution Archives)
19. "The hospital ship The People's Will is lying on its side in the Neva"
(May 17, 1921) (Courtesy of the Boris Sokolov Collection I Hoover
Institution Archives)
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