Despite the high-minded aspirations and ambitious scope of the Fenian movement, it met its end through squalid and lowly processes. These maneuverings s.
Despite the high-minded aspirations and ambitious scope of the Fenian movement, it met its end through squalid and lowly processes. These maneuverings s.
This gripping autobiography plays out against the backdrop of Russia's bloody Civil War, and was one of the first Western eyewitness accounts of life in post-revolutionary Russia. Marooned in Moscow provides a fascinating account of one woman's entry into war-torn Russia in early 1920, first-person impressions of many in the top Soviet leadership, and accounts of the author's increasingly dangerous work as a journalist and spy.