Seven Years In Soviet Russia: With A Retrospect
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Edition: presumed first.
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and corners
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: Note: Worn boards with rubbed edges. Slight lean to book. Name on prelims. Foxing on book block.
At the epicentre of one of the twentieth century's most seismic political transformations, German journalist Paul Scheffer spent seven formative years embedded within the Soviet Union, bearing witness to the brutal machinery of Bolshevism as it reshaped an empire. Seven Years in Soviet Russia is a riveting firsthand account that chronicles the ideological fervour, political terror, and human cost of Stalin's rising regime, translated for English-speaking audiences by Arthur Livingston with a retrospective that adds vital historical context to an already extraordinary narrative. Scheffer writes with the unsentimental precision of a seasoned foreign correspondent, presenting Soviet society not as propaganda would have it, but as he observed it — contradictory, violent, and at times grimly absurd. His account stands as a rare document of journalistic courage, offering an insider's perspective on a closed world that few Westerners were permitted to see. For historians, political scholars, and general readers alike, this is an indispensable primary source that asks a question still resonant today: what happens to truth when a state decides it is the enemy?
Author: Paul Scheffer
Format: Hardback
Genre: History
Edition: presumed first.
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and corners
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: Note: Worn boards with rubbed edges. Slight lean to book. Name on prelims. Foxing on book block.
At the epicentre of one of the twentieth century's most seismic political transformations, German journalist Paul Scheffer spent seven formative years embedded within the Soviet Union, bearing witness to the brutal machinery of Bolshevism as it reshaped an empire. Seven Years in Soviet Russia is a riveting firsthand account that chronicles the ideological fervour, political terror, and human cost of Stalin's rising regime, translated for English-speaking audiences by Arthur Livingston with a retrospective that adds vital historical context to an already extraordinary narrative. Scheffer writes with the unsentimental precision of a seasoned foreign correspondent, presenting Soviet society not as propaganda would have it, but as he observed it — contradictory, violent, and at times grimly absurd. His account stands as a rare document of journalistic courage, offering an insider's perspective on a closed world that few Westerners were permitted to see. For historians, political scholars, and general readers alike, this is an indispensable primary source that asks a question still resonant today: what happens to truth when a state decides it is the enemy?