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Red mutiny, eleven fateful days on the battleship Potemkin, Neal Bascomb

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Red mutiny, eleven fateful days on the battleship Potemkin, Neal Bascomb

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (p. [321]-333) and index

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illustrationsplatesmaps

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Red mutiny

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

71369154

Responsibility statement

Neal Bascomb

Sub title

eleven fateful days on the battleship Potemkin

Summary

In 1905, after being served rancid meat, more than 600 Russian Navy sailors mutinied against their officers aboard the most powerful battleship in the world. Theirs was a life of hard labor and bitter oppression, similar in its hopelessness and injustice to most of the working class in Russia at the time. Certainly their rebellion came as no surprise. Still, against any reasonable odds of success, the sailors-turned-revolutionaries risked their lives to take control of the ship and raise the red flag of revolution. What followed was a violent port-to-port chase that spanned eleven harrowing days and came to symbolize the Russian Revolution itself. Bascomb's narrative alternates between the opulent court of Nicholas II and the razor's-edge tension aboard the Potemkin, a tale threaded with epic naval battles, heroic sacrifices, treachery, bloodlust, and a rallying cry to freedom that would steer the course of the twentieth century.--From publisher description

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Eleven fateful days on the battleship Potemkin

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