Dreiser's Russian Diary

Theodore Dreiser. Thomas P. Riggio and James L. W. West III, Editors

312 pages | 6 x 9 | 16 illus.
Cloth 1996 | ISBN 978-0-8122-8091-3 | $39.95s | £26.00 | Add to shopping cart
A volume in the University of Pennsylvania Dreiser Edition series

Theodore Dreiser's Russian Diary is an extended record of the American writer's travels throughout the Soviet Union in 1927-28. Dreiser was initially invited to Moscow for a week-long observance of the tenth anniversary of the October Revolution. He asked, and was granted, permission to make an extended tour of the country.

This previously unpublished diary is a firsthand record of life in the USSR during the 1920s as seen by a leading American cultural figure. It is a valuable primary source, surely among the last from this period of modern history.

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