In September 1920 Wells went to Soviet Russia with his son, stayed with Maxim Gorky in Petrograd, and walked the collapsing city freely. He describes empty shops, ruined buildings, the efforts to keep science and literature alive, a session of the Petrograd Soviet, Zinoviev, and his long talk with Lenin, the dreamer in the Kremlin.
A vivid, controversial eyewitness report on revolutionary Russia by one of the most famous writers of his day. Download the free EPUB.