Black man in Red Russia
Subtitle: a memoir.
By: With an introd. by Harrison Salisbury.
Publisher: Johnson Pub. Co.
Published: 1964
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 221
Subjects: Soviet Union
Description: Homer Smith writes a memoir, as a black man disillusioned with life in the U.S. in 1930's in the U.S. who travelled to Russia in 1932 to see for himself whether the "democracy of the proletariat" was really a myth. He lived in the USSR for 14 eventful years, witnessing famine, the birth of the new Soviet Constitution in 1936, the horrible purges that followed, and the rise of the great industrial complex that was conceived during the monumental Five-Year Plans.