Dreiser's Russian diary
By: edited by Thomas P. Riggio, James L.W. West III.
Contributors: Riggio, Thomas P.; West, James L. W.
Series: The University of Pennsylvania Dreiser edition
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 297
Subjects: Dreiser, Theodore, 1871-1945 -- Travel -- Soviet Union.; Soviet Union -- Description and travel.
Description: 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 a 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 This previously unpublished diary is a firsthand record of life in the USSR during the 1920s as seen by a leading American cultural figure.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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.