Unchained Russia

by Charles Edward Russell

After the "first" Russian Revolution of 1917, when the old regime of Czar Nicholas was supplanted by the unhappy democratic government of Alexander Kerensky, President Woodrow Wilson sent a special diplomatic mission to Russia as a token of fraternal camaraderie -- the U.S. had just entered the World War and hoped that Kerensky's government would remain a firm ally against Germany.

One member of that mission was Russell, a veteran American Socialist former Socialist Party candidate for Governor of New York and Mayor of New York City -- who was expected to lend a sympathetic ear to Kerensky and his fellow democratic Socialists in Moscow and Petrograd.

This is Russell's account of the journey -- written, in sad retrospect, after the "second" Revolution which brought Lenin's Bolsheviks to power and removed Russia from the War - a tragedy, in Russell's eyes, which could have been avoided had the United States been more supportive of Kerensky.

332 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1918

About the author

Charles Edward Russell grew up on the shores of the Mississippi River during the days of lumber rafting. Best known as a journalist during the muckraking era for his exposés on the beef and tobacco trusts, Russell was also a co-founder of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in 1909.