The 1905 mutiny aboard the warship Potemkin was an early strike against the czarist regime From: The Boston Globe | Date: July 15, 2007| Author: Richard Eder - Richard Eder writes book reviews for several publications. | Copyright 2007 The Boston Globe. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

BOOK REVIEW

Red Mutiny: Eleven Fateful Days on the Battleship

Potemkin

By Neal Bascomb

Houghton Mifflin, 386 pp., illustrated, $26

Sergei Eisenstein's "Battleship Potemkin," a milestone in filmmaking, depicted the 1905 mutiny on Russia's most powerful warship as a triumphant forerunner of the revolution 12 years later. It was all unclouded resolve from the moment the crew rose up against the ration of maggoty meat that neatly symbolized the far vaster decay o...

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