author
Arno Dosch-Fleurot
1879–1951
A globe-trotting American reporter who watched revolutions and wars up close, he turned frontline experience into vivid nonfiction. His work offers a firsthand view of Europe in crisis and of the political fears that followed the Russian Revolution.
1 Audiobook
How much Bolshevism is there in America? : Also a series of articles entitled "Russia from the inside"
by Arno Dosch-Fleurot, Hector J. Boon
About the author
Born in 1879 and dead in 1951, Arno Dosch-Fleurot was an American journalist best known for foreign reporting from Europe. A California State University thesis on his life describes him as a veteran newspaperman who worked as a foreign correspondent in Europe from 1914 and reported major events including World War I, World War II, and the revolutions in Russia and Germany.
He is especially associated with reporting from Petrograd during the Russian Revolution. The introduction to How Much Bolshevism Is There in America? presents him as the only American correspondent in Petrograd when the March 1917 revolution broke out, and says he remained through the later Bolshevik takeover. That firsthand experience helped shape the sharp, eyewitness tone of his political writing.
Dosch-Fleurot also wrote Through War to Revolution, a memoir-style account of his experiences as a newspaper correspondent during the years 1914–1920. Taken together, his books and reporting make him an engaging guide to an era of upheaval, especially for listeners interested in war reporting, revolution, and how Americans understood Europe in the early twentieth century.