This book allows the reader to learn directly about the life and functioning of a Russian Soviet in the 1920s. How the soviet works is an amazing and almost never published document now coming back to the audience in a new and unexpensive edition. Brailsford visits factories, villages, getting in touch with workers, peasants and members of the Soviet Communist Party. During his journey he will partecipate to soviet elections as a witness, documenting a reality that was completely unknown in western countries. The account he ...
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This book allows the reader to learn directly about the life and functioning of a Russian Soviet in the 1920s. How the soviet works is an amazing and almost never published document now coming back to the audience in a new and unexpensive edition. Brailsford visits factories, villages, getting in touch with workers, peasants and members of the Soviet Communist Party. During his journey he will partecipate to soviet elections as a witness, documenting a reality that was completely unknown in western countries. The account he made when he went back to the United Kingdom remains one of the most important works ever made about life as it was in Soviet Union. To read. Henry Noel Brailsford (1873 - 1958) was the most prolific British left-wing journalist of the first half of the 20th century. He rised to prominence in the 1890s as a foreign correspondent for the Manchester Guardian, specialising in the Balkans, France and Egypt. In 1899 he moved to London, working for the Morning Leader and then The Daily News. His books in the 1930s include the anti-colonialist classic Rebel India (1931) and the anti-militarist Property or Peace? (1934).
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Add this copy of How the Soviets Work to cart. $30.00, like new condition, Sold by Rose's Books rated 1.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Harwich Port, MA, UNITED STATES, published 1928 by Vanguard Press.
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Fine. No Jacket. Book. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Second Vanguard printing. 8vo. Cloth. 169 p. An examination of the Soviet Union a decade after the Russian Revolution--its government, elections, villages, communism and socialism, work, nationalities, dictatorship, etc. Fine.
