Shtern, Sergei

V ogne grazhdanskoi voiny: vospominaniia, vpechatleniia, mysli [In the Fire of the Civil War: Memoirs, Impressions, Reflections]

Paris: Russkoe knigoizdatel’stvo Ia. Povolotskii i Ko. 1922. Item #1427

197, [3] pages. 22 cm. Publisher’s original wrappers. Wrappers brittle and edgeworn, with chipping to spine ends and corners, as well as mild creasing and several closed tears.

An evocative firsthand memoir chronicling the experience of provincial Russia during the Revolution and Civil War, authored by the émigré writer and participant S. F. Shtern. Rather than focusing on central political figures or well-trodden battles, Shtern’s account uniquely illuminates the perception and reverberations of national events in the Russian provinces. The work probes how provincial populations interpreted the shifting revolutionary landscape, the responses to Bolshevik consolidation, and the image of revolutionary leaders as filtered through the lens of local life.

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