Lenin's Moscow

This memoir by a Comintern leader in the early Soviet Union is “a vital primary source . . . clear and unpretentious” (Ian Birchall, from the new preface). When Alfred Rosmer arrived in Russia in 1919, it was considered by millions to be the center of world revolution. It was also a society beleaguered by civil war and encircled by hostile powers seeking to snuff out the promise and potential the first successful workers’ revolution represented. It was in this context that revolutionaries from a