The decision to record my experiences, observations, and reactions during my stay in
Russia I had made long before I thought of leaving that country. In fact, that was my
main reason for departing from that tragically heroic land.
The strongest of us are loath to give up a long-cherished dream. I had come to Russia
possessed by the hope that I should find a new-born country, with its people wholly
consecrated to the great, though very difficult, task of revolutionary rec ...