An American journalist who knew the Bolshevik leaders personally tries to show them as they are behind the smoke of revolution: Lenin and his subordinates, Dzerzhinsky and the Cheka, Lunacharsky and Russian culture, Kalinin, Alexandra Kollontai, Trotsky as war lord, and the Turkish exile Enver Pasha.
Sympathetic first-hand portraits from 1923, by the widow of John Reed. Download the free EPUB.