Arthur Ransome


The Crisis in Russia


Written: Summer of 1920
First Published: approx. Nov - Dec, 1920
Online Version: Project Gutenberg 1998, Lenin Internet Archive (marxists.org) 2000

While Ransome's support of the Soviet society is evident in his critical but encouraging look at this new government struggling through a civil war, what is not evident is that Arthur Ransome was a British Secret agent working with MI6! (Biography) Nevertheless, in some ways this only increases the historical value of this work; being an apolitical individual in the search for information.


Contents:

INTRODUCTION
THE SHORTAGE OF THINGS
THE SHORTAGE OF MEN
THE COMMUNIST DICTATORSHIP
A CONFERENCE AT JAROSLAVL
THE TRADE UNIONS
THE PROPAGANDA TRAINS
SATURDAYINGS
INDUSTRIAL CONSCRIPTION
WHAT THE COMMUNISTS ARE TRYING TO DO IN RUSSIA
RYKOV ON ECONOMIC PLANS AND ON THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY
NON-PARTYISM
POSSIBILITIES


Last updated on: 3.10.2008