Early in 1919 Arthur Ransome travelled from Petrograd to Moscow and spent weeks among the Bolshevik leadership. He reports sessions of the Executive Committee on the Prinkipo proposal, the Terror and the rival parties, visits to economic councils and interviews with leading figures, in a deliberately factual record of the revolution’s second winter.
A remarkable first-hand document by the future author of Swallows and Amazons, frankly sympathetic to the Soviet experiment. Download the free EPUB.