PUBLISHER'S NOTE

INTRODUCTION

ARTHUR RANSOME.

RUSSIA IN 1919

TO PETROGRAD

KAMENEV AND THE MOSCOW SOVIET

AN EX-CAPITALIST

A THEORIST OF REVOLUTION

EFFECTS OF ISOLATION

AN EVENING AT THE OPERA

THE COMMITTEE OF STATE CONSTRUCTIONS

NOTES OF CONVERSATIONS WITH LENIN

Part of what he said is embodied in what I have already written. But besides sketching the general aims of the Council, Rykov talked of the present economic position of Russia. At the moment Russian industry was in peculiar difficulties owing to the fuel crisis. This was partly due to the fact that the Czechs and the Reactionaries, who had used the Czechs to screen their own organization, had control of the coalfields in the Urals, and partly to the fact that the German occupation of the Ukraine and the activities of Krasnov had cut off Soviet Russia from the Donetz coal basin, which had been a main source of supply, although in the old days Petrograd had also got coal from England. It was now, however, clear that, with a friendly Ukraine, they would have the use of the Donetz basin much sooner than they had expected.

THE RACE WITH RUIN

A PLAY OF CHEKHOV

THE CENTRO-TEXTILE

MODIFICATION IN THE AGRARIAN PROGRAMME

FOREIGN TRADE AND MUNITIONS OF WAR

THE PROPOSED DELEGATION FROM BERNE

COMMISSARIAT OF LABOUR

EDUCATION

DIGRESSION

THE LEFT SOCIAL REVOLUTIONARIES

THE MENSHEVIKS

THE RIGHT SOCIAL REVOLUTIONARIES

THE THIRD INTERNATIONAL

LAST TALK WITH LENIN

THE JOURNEY OUT