CAUGHT IN THE REVOLUTION: PETROGRAD, RUSSIA 1917 — A WORLD ON THE EDGE By Helen Rappaport St. Martin’s Press, $27.99, 430 pages, illustrated British historian Helen Rappaport, who has written ...

His top-secret train trip home from exile in Switzerland to Petrograd (modern-day St Petersburg ... and an immediate end to Russia’s involvement in World War I. His arrival marked the beginning ...

9 The record of the festive session of 14 March, which adopted the Address to the Peoples of the World, is particularly moving ... presents the history of the Petrograd Soviet of 1917 in concise form ...