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Paul Dukes

Red Dusk and The Morrow: Adventures and Investigations in Red Russia (1922)

Red Dusk and The Morrow: Adventures and Investigations in Red Russia (1922) by Paul Dukes

Former Chief of the British Secret Intelligence Service in Soviet Russia

From the Foreword

 
IF EVER there was a period when people blindly hitched their wagons to shibboleths and slogans instead of stars it is the present. In the helter-skelter of eve...

Francis David Rowland, 1850-1927

Russia From the American Embassy, 1916-1918 (1921)

Russia From the American Embassy, 1916-1918 (1921) by Francis David Rowland, 1850-1927

From the Introduction

My commission as Ambassador to Russia was dated March 9th,1916. As I was so long in regaining my health and strength after leaving Russia, I offered to resign the Ambassadorship three or more times, but each time the Secretary of State...

Paul Miliukov

Bolshevism: An International Danger, Its Doctrine and Its Practice Through War and Revolution (1920)

Bolshevism: An International Danger, Its Doctrine and Its Practice Through War and Revolution (1920) by Paul Miliukov

From the Preface

SOME time ago people who tried to prove to European public opinion that Russian Bolshevism was an imminent danger to the whole of the world's civilization invariably met with the ready objection, that Bolshevis...

An English Woman

From A Russian Diary - 1917-1920 (1921)

From A Russian Diary - 1917-1920 (1921) by An English Woman

From the Foreword

WHEN the revolution broke out in Russia I was living in a provincial town, which since the war had become of considerable importance.

For some time before February 1917 the news- papers had been daily scanned with ever-increasing anxiety. Not only did it daily beco...

Daniel, W

Russia: 1918; Bolshevism in practice (1919)

Russia: 1918; Bolshevism in practice (1919) by Daniel, W

Preface

THE publication of this series of notes on the events in Russia during the first year of the Bolshevik regime should prove of advantage all round in helping the general public to understand, from the point of view of the details of daily life, what is happening in Russia to-day....