Russia in 1919

Arthur Ransome reported his visit to Russia in his role as a reporter and describes the situation in Revolutionary Russia with candour in his wonderfully clear writing style. He meets and has conversations with a spectrum of the Russians in this historic era, including 2 meetings with Lenin.

Ransome was not a Bolshevik and wrote an honest and unbiased account of his experience.

He returns to Russia a year and a half after the Bolsheviks take power and finds a nation trying to adjust to a new ...