Thompson Dorothy. The New Russia

New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1928. — 371 p.Dorothy Thompson Miss Thompson is primarily a reporter. Some of her chapters are as dry as a lawyer's brief in a patent controversy but the book as a whole is written with zest and conviction and contains considerable information. Her account of the structure of the Soviet State is concise and comprehensive. Miss Thompson also enriches our knowledge of Russia with a few poignant pictures of the Russian Bohemia, although her exposition of the trend of modern Soviet literature is rather spotty and sometimes naive. Both authors go out of their way to plead for New Russia and both are convincing to the extent of their personal integrity. The Soviets will stand or fall with communism and the latter is a world movement.The first impression
Mayfair and Montparnasse
The state as a political machine
Leninism: A power formula and a faith
The state as super-trust
Americanization as a socialist ideal
The war psychosis
The troops of armageddon
Making a new mental type
Lame eros
The red fields
The permanent crisis