This book is a first hand account of the October Revolution from the American author who actively participated in the it. While the book's central theme is the final few days running into the revolution, which led to the fall of Provincial government at the hands of Lenin's Bolsheviks, the author...
The noon cannon boomed from Peter-Paul as I went down the Nevsky. It was a raw, chill day. In front of the State Bank some soldiers with fixed bayonets were standing at the closed gates. "What side do you belong to?" I asked. "The Government?" "No more Gover...
These days I can’t get through almost any page of Orwell without a shudder, though in my teens I often had the Penguin selection of his essays in my pocket. I’d learned to loathe Animal Farm earlier at my prep school, Heatherdown, where any arguments for socialism would be met with brays of “and ...