As the ships gathered for exercises the revolutionaries were to coordinate their movements and arrest the ships’ officers at daybreak. The Social Democrats were the most powerful and best organized, and they had a plan to seize the entire fleet with a single coup de main. The Bolsheviks were among these, but merely one of many smaller factions. Rebellion was at a fever pitch in the Black Sea Fleet, with dozens of revolutionary movements seeking to take control of soldiers and sailors. As always the Russian government’s solution to resistance was to meeting it with overwhelming force, and strikers were shot down across the country. The government was nearly bankrupt, and forced to cancel large contracts, resulting in tens of thousands of workers being laid off. The war with Japan and been a disaster, incompetently organized and led, with one humiliating defeat after another. By the summer of 1905 uprisings were breaking out all over Russia. The actual events of those eleven days were a mix of tragedy and confusion, and there were moments when history seemed to hang in the balance. In reality, the doctor did approve the questionable meat, saying that it would be fine once rinsed with a bit of vinegar, and, while there are no reports of a baby carriage, the steps were the scene of a horrific massacre, as the Cossacks advanced downward and fired into the panicked crowd, again and again till they reached the bottom of the 240 steps. He won the Daily Express Best Book of the Sea Award in 1972.įor most people the Potemkin mutiny is remembered from Sergei Eisenstein’s 1925 silent movie Battleship Potemkin and its two unforgettable scenes: the ship’s doctor approving for consumption a haunch of meat crawling with maggots, and the massacre on the Odessa Steps, with the baby carriage bouncing down the stairs between the heaps of bodies. Winston Churchill figures prominently in nine of his books, including Former Naval Person: Churchill and the Wars at Sea. Hough was the official historian of the Mountbatten family and a longtime student of Churchill. Captain Bligh and Mr Christian, his 1972 account of the mutiny on the Bounty, was the basis of the 1984 film The Bounty, starring Anthony Hopkins and Mel Gibson. His works include The Longest Battle: The War at Sea 1939-45, Naval Battles of the Twentieth Century and best-selling biographies of Earl Mountbatten of Burma and Captain James Cook. Best-known for his works of naval history and his biographies, he also wrote war novels and books for children (under the pseudonym Bruce Carter), all of which sold in huge numbers around the world. His work as a publisher inspired him to turn to writing himself in 1950, and he went on to write more than ninety books over a long and successful career. He finally joined the publishing house Bodley Head, and then Hamish Hamilton, where he eventually headed the children’s book division. He flew Hurricanes and Typhoons and was wounded in action.Īfter World War II, Hough worked as a part-time delivery driver for a wine shop, while looking for employment involving books. In 1941, he joined the Royal Air Force and trained at a flying school near Los Angeles. As a child, he was obsessed with making model warships and collecting information about navies around the world. The resulting street demonstration in Odessa brings on a police massacre.Richard Alexander Hough was a British author and historian specializing in naval history. Organist Jonas Nordwall will be performing his original score on the mighty Wurlitzer theatre pipe organ.įrom the midst of the Russian revolution of 1905, the crew of the Battleship Potemkin mutiny against the brutal, tyrannical regime of the vessel's officers. Masks are required while in all common areas, including in your seat when not actively eating or drinking. Proof of vaccination or negative COVID test will be required to attend this screening.
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