{"product_id":"marooned-in-moscow-paperback","title":"Marooned in Moscow - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMarguerite Harrison\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eWilliam Benton Whisenhunt\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSoon after Marguerite Harrison's gripping autobiography was published, the \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003ecalled it the most interesting and valuable book available on contemporary Russia. Yet, inexplicably, the work has been out of print for 80 years. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFirst published in 1921, just months after Harrison's release from a Bolshevik prison. \u003cem\u003eMarooned in Moscow\u003c\/em\u003e provides a fascinating account of her entry into war-torn Russia in early 1920, first-person impressions of many in the top Soviet leadership, and her increasingly dangerous work as a journalist and spy, to say nothing of her work on behalf of prisoners, her two arrests, and her eventual ten-month-long imprisonment, including in the infamous Lubyanka prison. \u003cstrong\u003eIt is a veritable encyclopedia of life in Russia in the early 1920s.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Harrison's work came out fully a decade earlier than most other accounts of Soviet Russia and is very mzuch in the tradition of John Reed's \u003cem\u003eTen Days That Shook the World\u003c\/em\u003e, yet Harrison's is not a sympathetic voice. She is an incredibly observant, tenacious and meticulous journalist, but also very much an ordinary American woman caught up in extraordinary events. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e This new edition has been meticulously edited, glossed with hundreds of useful explanatory footnotes, supplemented with documents from KGB and U.S. intelligence archives, as well as photographs of many of the main actors and locales, and includes an introduction by the editor, William Benton Whisenhunt.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 328\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.69 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 25, 2016\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42733740589119,"sku":"9781880100646","price":34.56,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/2bc4037dcde3c001d545422a3fefbf90.webp?v=1765137205","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/marooned-in-moscow-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}