Arthur Ransome

1884-1967

“I have done my best to indicate the essential facts in Russia's problem today, and to describe the organization and methods with which she is attempting its solution. I can give no opinion as to whether by these means the Russians will succeed in finding their way out of the quagmire of industrial ruin in which they are involved. I can only say that they are unlikely to find their way out by any other means. I think this is instinctively felt in Russia. Not otherwise would it have been possible for the existing organization, battling with one hand to save the towns front starvation, to destroy with the other the various forces clothed and armed by Western Europe, which have attempted its undoing.” [Ransome, Possibilities]

Biography

Works

A Letter to America, May 1918

The Truth about Russia, 1918

Russia in 1919

The Crisis in Russia, 1920