The Last Days of the Romanovs Quotes

“In Ekaterinburg, as in many other Russian cities, the sharp and unavoidable disparity between Bolshevik rhetoric and Bolshevik practice was now becoming only too painfully clear.”
― Helen Rappaport, The Last Days of the Romanovs: Tragedy at Ekaterinburg

“the October Revolution of 1917 brought seismic changes to the city. In November, the ‘agitators’ arrived and with the support of local railway workers staged a Bolshevik coup d’état. This was swiftly followed by industrial and financial crisis as the city fell into debt and bankruptcy. Then followed arrests, shootings, confiscations and fear.”
― Helen Rappaport, The Last Days of the Romanovs: Tragedy at Ekaterinburg