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Title

Red mutiny : eleven fateful days on the battleship Potemkin / Neal Bascomb.

Author

Bascomb, Neal.

Publication

Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2007.

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Description

xiii, 386 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map; 24 cm

Summary

"In 1905, after being served rancid meat, more than seven hundred Russian sailors mutinied against their officers aboard what was then one of the most powerful battleships in the world. Theirs was a life barely worth living - a life of hard labor and bitter oppression, an existence, in its hopelessness and injustice, not unlike that of 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, led by the charismatic firebrand Matyushenko, risked their lives to take control of the ship and fly 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." "A story that alternates between the opulent court of Nicholas II and the razor-edge tension aboard the Potemkin, Red Mutiny is a tale threaded with terrific adventure, epic naval battles, heroic sacrifices,, treachery, bloodlust, and a rallying cry of freedom that would steer the course of the twentieth century."--BOOK JACKET.

Alternative Title

Eleven fateful days on the battleship Potemkin

Subject

• Bronenoset︠s︡ "Potemkin."
• Russia > History > Revolution, 1905-1907

Bibliography (note)

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

ISBN

• 9780618592067
• 0618592067

LCCN

2006030210

OCLC

• OCM71369154
• 71369154
• SCSB-14091343

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries