“RUSSIA FROM THE INSIDE”
By Hector Boon.
A New York Business Man, Recently Returned From a Long Stay and Extensive Travel in Russia
Reprinted from
January 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 1921
“AN AMERICAN BUSINESS MAN ON THE SITUATION IN RUSSIA”
To The New York World justly belongs the credit for giving the American people the best description of the present situation in Russia that has ever appeared in the American press. Beginning with Sunday, Jan. 9th, and ending on Friday, Jan. 14th, The New York World has published daily articles by Hector Boon, who has just returned from Soviet Russia, which he entered on April 6th and left on Oct. 12th, 1920, after spending more than half a year in Lenin’s kingdom.
Altogether, Mr. Boon spent ten months in Russia, of which four months were spent in the so-called “buffer state,” the Far Eastern Republic, which extends from Verkni-Udinsk to Vladivostok, and more than six months in Soviet Russia proper, mostly in Moscow. * * * To this is added that Mr. Boon was in Russia in 1917, before the Bolsheviki came into power, and thus he was able during his last visit to compare the conditions in Bolshevist Russia with the situation in Russia during the first months after the March Revolution.
From an article by A. J. Sack, Director of the Russian Information Bureau in the United States.