Russia in 1919

RUSSIA IN 1919 BY ARTHUR RANSOME - PUBLISHER'S NOTE

B. W. H. - INTRODUCTION

ARTHUR RANSOME. - SMOLNI

PETROGRAD TO MOSCOW

FIRST DAYS IN MOSCOW

THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE ON THE REPLY TO THE PRINKIPO PROPOSAL

THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE AND THE TERROR

THE SUPREME COUNCIL OF PUBLIC ECONOMY

Part of what he said is embodied in what I have already written. But besides sketching the general aims of the Council, Rykov talked of the present economic position of Russia. At the moment Russian industry was in peculiar difficulties owing to the fuel crisis. This was partly due to the fact that the Czechs and the Reactionaries, who had used the Czechs to screen their own organization, had control of the coalfields in the Urals, and partly to the fact that the German occupation of the Ukraine and the activities of Krasnov had cut off Soviet Russia from the Donetz coal basin, which had been a main source of supply, although in the old days Petrograd had also got coal from England. It was now, however, clear that, with a friendly Ukraine, they would have the use of the Donetz basin much sooner than they had expected.

THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE ON THE RIVAL PARTIES