Rheta Childe Dorr’s portrayal of her 1917 travel in Russia includes vivid eyewitness reports on political debates, public demonstrations, and conversations with a wide range of cultural leaders. Two especially engaging accounts focus on the Women’s Battalion of Death military unit led by Maria Bochkareva, and the Martha and Mary Convent in Moscow, guided by Grand Duchess Elizabeth Feodorovna. —Matthew Lee Miller, PhD, Professor of History, University of Northwestern - St. Paul, St. Paul, Minnesota; Author, The American YMCA and Russian Culture: The Preservation and Expansion of Russian Orthodoxy, 1900-1940.In Inside the Russian Revolution, Rheta Childe Dorr’s fearless reporting bursts back to life through Victoria I. Zhuravleva’s superbly edited edition. Dorr, trailblazing journalist, feminist, and war correspondent, captures the turbulence of 1917 Russia with vivid immediacy and moral clarity. Zhuravleva’s introduction restores Dorr’s voice to its rightful place in history: bold, nuanced, and incandescent. —Steven A Usitalo, Professor and Chair, Department of History and Social Sciences, Northern State University, Aberdeen, USA.“Before John Reed and Louise Bryant, there was Rheta Childe Dorr—the pioneering American journalist whoentered revolutionary Petrograd with a suffragist’s idealism and left with a realist’s eye. In Inside the RussianRevolution, now reissued with a full scholarly apparatus by Victoria I. Zhuravleva, Dorr’s sharp reportage revealshow one woman’s encounter with upheaval reshaped both her politics and her faith in progress.”—Ivan Kurilla, Visiting Professor of History, The Ohio State University; author of Americans and All the Rest: The Origin and Meaning of U.S. Foreign Policy (2024, in Russian) and Battle for the Past: How Politics Rewrites History (2025); editor of Carl Ackerman’s Trailing the Bolsheviki: Twelve Thousand Miles with the Allies in Siberia“This republication of Rheta Childe Dorr’s fascinating and controversial book about the Russian Revolution of1917 is greatly enhanced by an extraordinarily thorough and insightful introduction written by the editor, thedistinguished historian Victoria Zhuravleva.” —David S. Foglesong, Professor of History, Rutgers University, USA “In Inside the Russian Revolution, Rheta Childe Dorr’s fearless reporting bursts back to life through Victoria I.Zhuravleva’s superbly edited edition. Dorr, a trailblazing journalist, feminist, and war correspondent, captures theturbulence of 1917 Russia with vivid immediacy and moral clarity. Zhuravleva’s introduction restores Dorr’s voiceto its rightful place in history: bold, nuanced, and incandescent.”—Steven A. Usitalo, Professor and Chair, Department of History and Social Sciences, Northern State University, Aberdeen, USA“A unique eyewitness account of the Russian Revolution authored by an American feminist Rheta Childe Dorr.The book offers an unflinching and insightful description of the events, giving us a fuller picture of the Revolutionand its impact in the United States. Victoria Zhuravleva’s introduction and editing expertly guide us through thiscompelling historical journey.” —Dina Fainberg, The University of London, UK
