Author: BESSIE BEATTY, "WAR CORRESPONDENT OF SAN FRANCISCO BULLETIN
Title: The Red Heart of Russia - 1918 Signed 1st Edition
Description: NY, The Century Company. 1918, 1st Edition. Hardcover. Book, 1918. 'The Red Heart of Russia' -- Signed & personally inscribed by author & American war correspondent, Bessie Beatty, in her extensive account of the Bolshevik Revolution & WW1 Russia. Red-cloth hardcover. Overall good condition (see photos). Illustrated with (53) photographs, 480 pages. Newspaper correspondent Bessie Beatty devoted her life to great causes-- womens suffrage, labor unions, the Bolshevik Revolution. In 1917, Beatty travelled for the San Francisco Bulletin to Russia, along with fellow travelers John Reed and Louise Bryant. Beatty secured a room at the War Hotel (where Russian officers were living) that gave her a vantage point to significant events of the Bolshevik Revolution & WW1 Russia. She traveled to trenches to witness Russians fending off German advances.. spent a week with the 'Women's Battalion of Death', interviewing peasants, soldiers, and sailors.. on Nov. 7, 1917 (as the Winter Palace fell) Beatty obtained a city access pass from the Military Revolutionary Committee and was among the first civilians to enter the Winter Palace following removal of Alexander Kerensky's provisional government.. Beatty attended meetings of important revolutionaries, as Lenin and Trotsky argued over concessions to Germany..she attended the only meeting of Constituent Assembly before its downfall.. Beatty visited incarcerated ministers of Russia's provisional government imprisoned in the Peter and Paul Prison by Lenin (and attended their trials). Good. Inscribed by Author(s).

Keywords: Russian revolution, october revolution, revolution,WW1,USSR,journalism,womens suffrage,Bolsheviks