- Subjects
- Published
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New York :
Pegasus Books
2017.
- Language
- English
- Edition
- First Pegasus books hardcover edition
- Physical Description
- 364 pages ; 24 cm
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN
- 9781681775203
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 'The Deciding Night', from My Life
- 'The Fall of the Provisional Government? from Ten Days that Shook the World 'Odds and Ends of Revolution', from Six Red Months in Russia
- 'An Ex-Capitalist' & 'A Theorist of Revolution', from Six Weeks in Russia in 1919
- 'Perhaps it is for the best', from Memoirs of a British Agent
- 'Alone in Petrograd', from The Russian Countess
- 'Blockade', from Story of a Life: Years of Hope
- 'Chapaev', from Chapaev 'Family Man'
- 'Mr Harrington's Washing', from Ashenden: Or the British Agent
- 'Rasputin', from Rasputin and Other Ironies & 'They got her to scrub the deck!', from Memories: From Moscow to the Black Sea
- Excerpts from Diary: 1920
- 'The Shaving of Karl Mara' & 'Institutionalising the Town Children', from Russia in the Shadows
- 'Letters from Russia', from Uncertain Paths to Freedom: Russia and China 1919-22
- 'The Outgoing Letter N37' 'Electrification', 'Domestic Bliss', 'Crisis', 'Nervous People', 'An Incident on the Volga', 'Pelageya' & 'The Hat' 'The Secret of the Cheka', from Mess-Mend: The Yankees in Petrograd
- 'Three Generations', from Love of Worker Bees 'Lalla's Interests'
- 'The Destruction of the Intelligentsia' from The Italics are Mine
- 'Hares of All Lands, Unite!', from First Years of Revolution 1918-21, Volume II: Of People, Years, Life
- 'John Reed burst into my room ...' & 'Free Speech is a Bourgeois Prejudice', from Living My Life 'Back in Petrograd' from The Bolshevik Myth
- 'Anguish and Enthusiasm: 1919-1920', 'Deadlock of the Revolution: 1926-1928' & 'The Years of Resistance: 1928-1933', from Memoirs of a Revolutionary 'The Roussakov Affair', from After Sixteen Months in the USSR
- 'The Pride and Pomp of Proletarian Power', from A Long Way from Home 'Turkmenian Flamenco', from I Wonder as I Wander
- 'The Bloodthirsty Profession' & 'Striving after Friendship'
- 'Moscow', from Reflections; Essays, Aphorism, Autobiographical Writings
- 'Propaganda Plus', from Dreiser Looks at Russia
- 'How Robinson was Created'
- Permissions
Review by Kirkus Book Review