Raymond Robins' Own Story (Stories of the Russian Revolution)($11.99Value)

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With Bolshevism triumphant at Budapest and at Munich, and with a Council of Workmen's and Soldiers' Deputies in session at Berlin, Raymond Robins began to narrate to me his personal experiences and his observations of the dealings of the American government with Bolshevism at Petrograd and at Moscow. Thus began the narrative of William Hard, the Progressive-era Muckracker, of the Russian Revolution. Alongside writers like Albert Rhys Williams and John Reed, his testimony describes the refusal of the Western powers to deal honestly and fairly with Lenin's government after they took power. As a Red Cross official, Robbins found himself as the sole American in any official capacity at all who was willing and able to consult with the newborn Soviet republic. These were the initial moments that set the stage for the later confrontations of the Cold War. Photo illustrations included.