Lenin's Moscow

This memoir by a Comintern leader in the early Soviet Union is "a vital primary source . . . clear and unpretentious"(Ian Birchall, from the new preface).When Alfred Rosmer arrived in Russia in 1919, it was considered by millions to be the center of world revolution. It was also a society beleaguered by civil war and encircled by hostile powers seeking to snuff out the promise and potential the fi...