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"This international, multiauthor collection of essays examines Russian and early Soviet international relations from the Great War's outbreak in August 1914 through the Revolution of 1917 and the Civil War, ending with the Peace of Riga in 1921. Taking a broad definition of international relations, the chapters range from state-to-state diplomacy to NGOs, civil society, commerce and culture"--

Preface to the revised edition -- Part one. Leader at last. Launching a movement -- Blackout in Houston -- Railroads, baseball, and the color line -- "I was going places" -- Part two. A boy from Galveston and San Augustine. Uphome -- Rabbit returns -- Driving Mr. Gus -- Part three. Wandering and return. "They got me, but they can't forget me": a mad odyssey -- Drew and me: recovering separate selves

"Common sense vanishes in revolutionary times": Sofia Panina and Ariadna Tyrkova-Williams reflect on 1917 / Adele Lindenmeyr -- Too busy for nostalgia? Sergei Prokudin-Gorskii's professional life and autobiographical publications after the Revolution (1917-44) / Henning Lautenschläger -- "Dragged headlong into the whirlwind": the Shul'gin family, Kievlianin, and Kiev's Russian nationalist movement in 1917 / Fabian Baumann -- "I am too bewildered to understand anything these days": members of the old elite try to make sense of the Russian revolutions / F. Benjamin Schenk -- The Kurbatikha estate: revolution in one manor: mature reflections on childhood experience / Christopher Read -- Two women gaining power through the October Revolution: Aleksandra Kollontai and Suzanne Girault / Sophie Cœuré -- Experiences of war and revolution: Vladimir Socoline's long road to Damascus / Korine Amacher -- Facing the Rubicon: analyzing the impact of the Russian Revolution on an individual life / Anthony Heywood -- Roman Jakobson and the Russian Revolution / Marina Yu. Sorokina -- "We're growing accustomed to Heaven on Earth": diaries as a means of self-preservation, and a testimony to means of survival, in Revolutionary Russia / Igor Narsky and Aleksandr Fokin -- An event without importance? Peasant autobiographical writing as media of the October Revolution 1917 / Julia Herzberg -- Kamenev in conflict with Lenin and Trotskii: the perils of revolutionary biography / Alexis Pogorelskin -- Polish Leftists in the Russian Revolution in Ukraine: the difficult construction of a Soviet memory / Eric Aunoble -- Lev Trotskii's experiences of autobiography: My life and its antecedents / Alexander Reznik -- Volin, a revolutionary in exile: the function of his personal testimony / Pierre Boutonnet.

This is a new account of the late-fourteenth-century mystic and pilgrim Margery Kempe. Kempe, who had 14 children, travelled all over Europe and recorded a series of unusual events and religious visions in her work The Book of Margery Kempe, which is often called the first autobiography in the English language. Anthony Bale charts her life, and tells her story through the places, relationships, objects and experiences that influenced her. Extensive quotation from Kempe's Book, and generous illustration, gives fascinating insight into the life of a medieval woman. Margery Kempe is situated within the religious controversies of her time, and her religious visions and later years put in context. Lastly there is the story of the rediscovery, in the 1930s, of the unique manuscript of her autobiography.