Buy this book on-line BASCOMB, NEAL: : RED MUTINY: Mutiny,Revolution and Revenge on the Battleship PotemkinLONDON.WEIDENFELD & NICOLSON,2007. ISBN 9780297846482.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[Complete number line 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2.] FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj. Bright,crisp,clean,red+black illustrated wrap-around dw/dj,with red,white and orange lettering to front and spine/ backstrip,orange+white Lenin quote and orange+white lettered critics' reviews to rear panel; with negligible shelf-wear, bumping or creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight, clean,solid and sound - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - appears unread,apart from my own collation. Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered - exception of top two corners each with a minimal bump,publisher's original,plain black cloth boards with bright,crisp, blocked red ink lettering to spine/ backstrip,and clean maroon endpapers.UK, 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,x-xvpp+4-363pp [paginated] includes author's 3pp note with b/w Black Sea regional map to reverse of last page,a prologuePts I-III comprising 5,12 and 5 chapters respectively,8pp contemporary b/w photographs in 1 block,between pp176/7,and an epilogue; Dramatis Personae, acknowledgements,research notes and a 12pp bibliography,notes and an index.Plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,a dedication,and contents list/table, and 4pp blanks at rear
In June 1905,the sailors of Imperial Russia's newest and most powerful battleship,the Potemkin,killed their captain and raised the red flag of revolution.Subjected to atrocious conditions,they were led to rise up against their tyrannical officers by a band of dedicated revolutionaries. The spur had been a consignment of rancid, maggot-infested meat purchased by the ship's supply officer,the intended result, a fleet-wide mutiny that would in turn trigger a nationwide revolution.But it was not to be.
With uprisings quelled aboard other warships,the crew found themselves alone on the Black Sea with the rest of the Russian navy in pursuit.Hunted and hounded from port to port,the mutineers entered Odessa,sparking the bloody insurrection later immortalised in Sergei Eisenstein's film 'The Battleship Potemkin'.Rebellions broke out all over Russia,with massive riots in the big cities.For a few weeks it seemed that Nicholas II,already facing defeat in his war with Japan,would be overthrown.
As Lenin said at the time,'The Rubicon has been crossed',for though the Black Sea mutiny ultimately failed to launch the great revolution,it exposed the rot within the country's bloated regime.Neal Bascomb paints a vivid portrait of the men at the centre of events,from sadistic naval officers to hardened revolutionairies,from the hapless tsar to the leader of the mutiny,Afanasy Nikolayevitch Matyushenko. Drawing on long-closed Soviet archives, 'Red Mutiny' is a thrilling tale threaded through with dramatic adventure,epic naval battles,treachery and heroic sacrifice.
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