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NINA LANE McBRIDE

Acknowledgment is hereby made to the “Christian Science Monitor,” “Universal Service” (Hearst), and “Asia Magazine” for courtesies extended, in using some of the material that appeared in those publications.

CONTENTS

CHAPTERPAGE
Preface[9]
I. Entering Red Land[13]
II. With the Red Soldiers[21]
III. On to Moscow[41]
IV. Moscow[51]
V. Interview With Lenin[64]
VI. Who Is Lenin?[72]
VII. Petrograd[87]
VIII. Bolshevik Leaders—Brief Sketches[102]
IX. Women and Children[112]
X. Government Industry and Agriculture[120]
XI. Propaganda[138]
XII. Coming Out of Soviet Russia[144]
Appendix[157]
I. Code of Labor Laws[159]
II. Resolutions Adopted at the Conference of the Second All-Russian Congress of Trades Unions[191]
III. Financial Policy and Results of the Activities of the People’s Commissariat of Finance[241]
IV. Reports: (a) Metal Industry; (b) Development of Rural Industries; (c) Nationalization of Agriculture[255]

ILLUSTRATIONS

Mr. Average Man’s Impression of the Meaning of Certain Russian Words[Frontispiece]
FACING PAGE
Red Army’s Infantry Division[22]
Trotzky, Commissar of War and Marine[30]
Lenin and Mrs. Lenin, Moscow, 1919[38]
Lenin in the courtyard of the Kremlin, Moscow, Summer of 1919[46]
Lenin at his desk in the Kremlin, 1919[50]
Lenin in Switzerland, March, 1919[62]
Exterior and Interior of Lenin’s Home in Zurich[70]
Gorky and Zinovieff[78]
Zinovieff, President of the Petrograd Soviet[86]
Chicherin, Commissar of Foreign Affairs[94]
Litvinoff, Assistant Commissar of Foreign Affairs[102]
Children of the Soviet School at Dietskoe Selo[110]
Mrs. Lenin visiting a Soviet School[118]
Soviet Propaganda Train[126]
“Red Terror”[142]

Preface