The Bolshevik Myth (Diary 1920-1922)

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 UK: England & Wales (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0) licence. (Diary IQ20-IQ22) BY . ALEXANDER BERKMAN HUTCHINSON and CO. [Publishers] Limited 33 to 36 Paternoster Row :: London Copyright, 1925, by BONI & LlVERIGHT, IKC. Printed in the United States of America CONTENTS CEAPTER L The Log of the Transport "Buford" PAGE vii II. On Soviet Soil ....... III. In Petrograd . . .... . . IV. V. The Guest House ..... .. ,. VI. TCHICHERIN AND KaRAKHAN . . . VII. The Market VIII. In the Moskkommune ,., . IX. The Club on the Tverskaya . . . X. A Visit to Peter Kropotkin . XI. XII. Sights and Views . . . . . . XIII. Lenin .......... XIV. On the Latvian Border . . ... • XV. XVI. Rest Homes for Workers . . ,. ; . XVII. The First of May . . . ,.. . XVIII. The British Labor Mission . .. ,., XIX. The Spirit of Fanaticism .... ■ VI CONTENTS CHAPTER XX. (■ * XXI. En Route to the Ukraina * • ■ XXII. First Days in Kharkov . 1 ■ • • .•1 XXIII. In Soviet Institutions . * m • XXIV. * * • • l82 XXV. Nestor Makhno . . . • • • XXVI. Prison and Concentration Camp . . XXVII. XXVIII. Fastov the Pogrom ed • • a XXIX. Kiev ...... • • . • . 2l8 XXX. In Various Walks ,. . * * 1*' XXXI. The Tcheka .... ■ • t» . XXXII. Odessa : Life and Vision .. 1*. « XXXIII. Dark People . ... • ' • ■ -* 26O XXXIV. A Bolshevik Trial . • XXXV. • • • . XXXVI. In the Far North . . ■ * • • 28l XXXVII. Early Days of 192 i . . i • • ■ XXXVIII. M XXXIX. • ft • • PREFACE Revolution breaks the social forms grown too narrow for man. It bursts the molds which constrict him the more solidified they become, and the more Life ever striving forward leaves them. In this dynamic process the Russian Revolution has gone further than any previous revolution.