Hodder GCSE History for Edexcel: Russia and the Soviet Union, 1917-41 by Steve Waugh & John Wright

Author:Steve Waugh & John Wright [Waugh, Steve; Wright, John]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Hodder Education
Published: 2016-03-19T16:00:00+00:00

Source J From My Disillusionment in Russia, 1923. This was written by an American woman, E. Goldman, who returned to Petrograd in 1920. She had lived in Russia in the 1880s but then went back to the USA

It was almost in ruins, as if a hurricane had swept over it. The streets were dirty and deserted. All life had gone from them. The people walked about like living corpses. The shortage of food and fuel was slowly sapping the city. Grim death was clutching at its heart. Emaciated and frostbitten men, women and children were being whipped by a common lash, the search for a piece of bread or a stick of wood. It was a heart-rending sight by day, and oppressing weight by night. It fairly haunted me, this oppressive silence broken only by the occasional shots.

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