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Mirrors of Moscow

Mirrors of Moscow, by Louise Bryant With 5 illustrations by Césare. New York: Thomas Seltzer, 1923 Louise Bryant, widow of pioneer American Communist John Reed and author of the 1918 book Six Red Months in Russia, returns to the theme of the Bolshevik revolution, this time to provide short biographical sketches of some of the leading players and institutions on the Soviet landscape. Chapters: xi - Foreword 001 - Lenin and His Subordinates (Christian Rakovsky, Abram Krasnichakov, Lev Kamenev, Grigory Zinoviev, Petr Stuchka, Alexey Rykov) 043 - Jacob Peters, Feodor S. Dzerzhinsky and the Extraordinary Commission 069- Anatoly Vassilievich Lunacharsky and Russian Culture 085 - Mikhail Ivanovich Kalinin and the Peasants 109 - Madame Alexandra Kollontai and the Woman's Movement 129 - Leon Trotsky, Soviet War Lord 147 - Enver Pasha and the Mohammedans 165 - Tikhon and the Russian Churches 179 - Chicherin, Commissar for Foreign Affairs, and His Subordinates 197 - Maxim Litvinov, Assistant Commissar, Leonid Krassin and Subordinates Art: Includes drawings of Lenin (pg. 2), Kalinin (pg. 86), Kollontai (pg. 110), Trotsky (pg. 130), and Enver Pasha (pg. 148). Navigation Note: Each individual bi

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