Cecilia Bobrovskaya provides us with an excellent source on the work and personalities of the Bolsheviks as well as the political and social atmosphere of the Russian Empire before World War One. Online text of full book here.
Twenty Years in Underground Russia: Memoirs of a Rank-and-File Bolshevik by Cecilia Bobrovskaya. International Publishers, New York. 1934.
Contents: I. My Parental Home, I Go to Warsaw, My First Trip Abroad, Work in Kharkov, I Go “Underground,” My First Period of Work “Underground,” Abroad Once More, Work in the Caucasus, Moscow, My Unsuccessful Rest, In Kostroma Again, My Brief Secretaryship, In Ivanovo-Voznesensk, The “Okruzhka,” The Sequel, In Moscow Again. 227 pages.
International Publishers was formed in 1923 for the purpose of translating and disseminating international Marxist texts and headed by Alexander Trachtenberg. It quickly outgrew that mission to be the main book publisher, while Workers Library continued to be the pamphlet publisher of the Communist Party.
PDF of book: https://archive.org/download/20yearsinundergroundrussia/20yearsinundergroundrussia.pdf
