EXCERPT
Edging closer to joining the fighting in WWI, the US also tried to unriddle what was happening in Russia. Then came the revolution, which the US hailed, until it didn’t.
Pulitzer, Polk, and Overseas Press Club Award–winning journalist Will Englund was a recent Moscow correspondent for The Washington Post and has spent a total of 12 years reporting from Russia. He now lives in Baltimore, Maryland.
Edging closer to joining the fighting in WWI, the US also tried to unriddle what was happening in Russia. Then came the revolution, which the US hailed, until it didn’t.