Returning to Soviet Russia in 1920, a year after his Russia in 1919, Ransome reports on a country starved of goods and of skilled men. He explains the Communist dictatorship, the trade unions, the debate over one-man factory management, the propaganda trains sent to the provinces, and the voluntary Saturday labour called subbotniks, from a conference at Yaroslavl to the streets of Moscow.
First-hand reporting from the future author of Swallows and Amazons, sympathetic to the revolution but closely observed. Download the free EPUB.