Russia in the Shadows
‹
›
- Browse Category
We Begin at the EndLearn More - Choice Picks
- Top 100 Free Books
- Blog
- Recently Added
- Submit your eBook
By H. G. Wells
4 Oct, 2019
Russia in the Shadows is a book by H. G. Wells published early in 1921, which includes a series of articles previously printed in The Sunday Express in connection with Wells's second visit to Russia (after a previous trip in January 1914 to St. Pete
... Read more
Russia in the Shadows is a book by H. G. Wells published early in 1921, which includes a series of articles previously printed in The Sunday Express in connection with Wells's second visit to Russia (after a previous trip in January 1914 to St. Petersburg and Moscow) in September and October 1920. Wells was at the height of his fame, having recently completed The Outline of History. During his visit to Russia he visited his old friend Maxim Gorky, whom he had first met in 1906 on a trip to the United States, and who arranged Wells's meeting with Lenin.
Wells portrayed Russia as recovering from a total social collapse, "the completest that has ever happened to any modern social organisation." He minimized the role of the Bolsheviks in the fall of the Russian state, and presented this explanation of their success: "While all the rest of Russia was either apathetic like the peasantry or garrulously at sixes and sevens or given over to violence or fear, the Communists were prepared to act."
In a chapter devoted to an interview with Lenin at the Kremlin Wells describes the leader and founder of Russian communism. Wells portrays Lenin as a pragmatic leader who "has recently stripped off the last pretence that the Russian revolution is anything more than the inauguration of an age of limitless experiment." Less
- File size
- Print pages
- Publisher
- Language
- ISBN
- 1229.364 KB
- 180
- Public Domain Books
- English
- 978-1849026543
Author
Related Books
.jpeg){kind=logo}
Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents William McKinley, Messages, Proclamations, and Executive Orders Relating to the Spanish-American War:
Napoleon the Little:
History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I:
Great Britain And the American Civil War:
A Righte Merrie Christmasse: The Story of Christ-Tide:
Woman & the Republic: A Survey of the Woman-Suffrage Movement in the United States and a Discussion of the Claims and Arguments of Its Foremost Advocates:
The Mafulu Mountain People of British New Guinea:
Kinship Organisations and Group Marriage in Australia:
Empire and Wars:
Bibliomania in the Middle Ages:
Against Home Rule the Case for the Union:
The System of Nature, Or, the Laws of the Moral and Physical World. Volume 1:
Germania and Agricola:
Are Women People? A Book of Rhymes for Suffrage Times:
On Limitations to the Use of Some Anthropologic Data:
The Short Constitution:
Crime and Its Causes:
The wild tribes of Davao district, Mindanao:
Pygmies and Papuans:
The Customs of old England:
Unconscious Memory:
The English Constitution:
The Fourth-Dimensional Reaches of The Exposition:
The Future of the American Negro:
War and the Future: Italy, France and Britain at War:
Join us and get access to all your favourite books
It’s free
