The Bolshevik Revolution Had Descended on Me Madeleine Z. Doty's Russian Revolution

<p>In 1917-that is in the midst of the First World War-Madeleine Z. Doty a feminist lawyer prison reformer peace activist and journalist was commissioned by the magazine <em>Good Housekeeping</em> to travel around the world to get a view behind the battle line of how people on the home front especially women were responding to the war. Traveling on the Trans-Siberian Railway from China Doty crossed the border into Russia just days after the Bolshevik Revolution had begun. She meant it literally when she declared in her account of these travels <em>Behind the Battle Line: Around the World in 1918</em>: The Bolshevik Revolution had descended on me.</p>