- Arthur Ransome: Three Accounts of Revolutionary
Russia
- The biography of Arthur Ransome has been written elsewhere, and will not be repeated here. For the purposes at hand, all we need to know is that
from 1915 until 1924 he reported on the Russian Revolution and its aftermath. At first, he acted as correspondent for the Daily News and then The Manchester Guardian from October
1919.
During this time he was one of the few journalists in Russia to
experience and report events first hand and used these insights to publish three works:
* A Letter to America (1918)
* Six Weeks in Russia (1919)
* The Crisis in Russia (1921)
- Bessie Beatty on Revolutionary Russia
- This book is not about Bessie Beatty. Instead, it focusses on
her accounts of Revolutionary Russia; published as The Red Heart of Russia (1918) and given as oral evidence to the Bolshevik propaganda Hearings before a subcommittee of the Committee on the
judiciary, United States Senate (1919). Both records are informed by her experiences of Russia when, along with a number of American journalists, she reported on events there; in her case for the San
Francisco Bulletin.
- Louise Bryant on Revolutionary Russia
- Louise Bryant visited Russia along with a number of American
journalists - in her case for the Metropolitan Magazine and Philadelphia Public Ledger. She later published Six Red Months in Russia (1918) and gave oral evidence to the Bolshevik propaganda Hearings
before a subcommittee of the Committee on the judiciary, United States Senate (1919).
- Ernest Poole on Revolutionary Russia
- Ernest Poole's accounts of Revolutionary Russia -"The Dark
People" and The Village - are published together for the first time, due to the unique insight they offer into the impact of war and revolution on rural
communities.
Through a series of interviews and conversations, Poole describes
the daily hardships that people faced, while revealing tensions between villages and cities, soldiers and civilians, young and old, idealists and the more practically
minded.
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