Soviet Russia (New York). Vol. 5 No. 5. November, 1921.

A packed number beginning with U.S. comrade Moissaye J. Olgin looking at the fourth year of the Revolution followed by much of interest on the state of the Soviets at the end of the Civil War. Be sure not to miss the photo essay on the propaganda trains bringing the Good News to the East. With online texts linked below of Lenin’s speech to the Third Comintern Congress in June, 1921, and ‘This Must Be Stopped,’ Trotsky’s warning to the imperialists over their support of sabotage in the Soviet rear.

Contents: The Work of the Fourth Year by Moissaye J. Olgin, For Russia by Martin Andersen Nexo author of “Pelle, the Conqueror”, The Present Situation by Lenin, November Seventh by Albert Rhys Williams, Russian Red Cross, White Terror and Red by Arthur Holitscher, Russia’s External Economic Policy by Leonid Krassin, Russia Buys from America, Captain Gregory Repeats, Can This Go On? by Leon Trotsky, Correspondence with Poland, A Reply to Curzon, Plans for a New Pogrom, Discussions with Rumania on Bessarabia, Those Who Go to Russia by Jakob Friis, Russia and Scandinavia, Trade Agreement between Russia and Norway, Austria Delivers Weapons to Her Enemies, The Kashir Electrical Station by L.C. Martens, Books Reviewed.

Soviet Russia began in the summer of 1919, published by the Bureau of Information of Soviet Russia and replaced The Weekly Bulletin of the Bureau of Information of Soviet Russia. In lieu of an Embassy the Russian Soviet Government Bureau was the official voice of the Soviets in the US. Soviet Russia was published as the official organ of the RSGB until February 1922 when Soviet Russia became to the official organ of The Friends of Soviet Russia, becoming Soviet Russia Pictorial in 1923. There is no better US-published source for information on the Soviet state at this time, and includes official statements, articles by prominent Bolsheviks, data on the Soviet economy, weekly reports on the wars for survival the Soviets were engaged in, as well as efforts to in the US to lift the blockade and begin trade with the emerging Soviet Union.

PDF of full issue: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/srp/v4-5-soviet-russia%20Jan-Dec%201921.pdf