![]() ![]() ![]() The Diaries of Wasif Jawhariyyeh I was introduced to Jawhariyyeh while researching 1913: The World Before the Great War and was immediately captivated. One example: describing Berlin after the failed 1919 Communist coup as continuing on “like an elephant stabbed by a penknife”.Ĥ. A diplomat as well as a dandy, he understood politics as well as art and cared for both (earning the moniker the Red Count). Born into wealth, eternally inquisitive, an insider whose sexuality gave him an outsider’s perspective, Kessler got everywhere and met everyone from Bismarck to Josephine Baker. The Diaries of Harry Kessler Kessler has it all. Photograph: ullstein bild via Getty Imagesģ. For Crucible, I found myself engrossed in digital records of grainy, typed-up statements from participants in Ireland’s bloody and intimate independence struggle, all at Diplomat and dandy … Harry Kessler. Audio projects document Indian partition and the Windrush experience. The US Holocaust Memorial Museum site offers survivors’ video interviews. Bureau of Military History, Ireland While books have traditionally been the format of published witness testimony, oral histories and archival digitisation have changed the landscape. He makes sense of the whole complex rigmarole of 1917, February as well as October, the politics as well as the passion and the personalities.Ģ. Sukhanov, an insider who wound up dead at the hands of Stalin’s henchmen in 1940, is more balanced. (He called Ten Days “a slice of intensified history”). ![]() Here is a man learning revolution as he goes along, breathless with excitement. In his scrapbooks in the Harvard archive you find a page where Reed tentatively writes his name in Cyrillic script. Here are 10 compelling examples:ġ The Russian Revolution by Nikolai Sukhanov It’s not hard to understand why John Reed’s Ten Days that Shook the World is the popular eyewitness account of the Bolshevik revolution: Reed and Louise Bryant’s immortalisation in Reds, Lenin’s endorsement, the fact Reed beat others to the scoop. There are those paid to make sense of the world – journalists such as Hemingway or novelists such as Nabokov or Zweig – and those whose testimony moves us through the simple miracle of survival. How we read matters as much as who we read. There are as many different types of witness as reader: those at the centre and at the margin, Rosa Luxemburg penning letters from a prison cell and Einstein taking down impressions of Palestine, those writing accounts with an eye to posterity (all politicians) and those without the time to think. ![]()
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