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One American Jesuit was there when Lenin and Stalin disemboweled Christian Russia. Now, his towering masterpiece is back, after 75 years. When Fr. Edmund Walsh, SJ, first crossed from Latvia into Soviet Russia on the night of March 21, 1922, the Russian people were suffering an appalling famine engineered by their Communist masters. As director of the papal relief effort, Fr. Walsh would spend the next several years traveling the Red empire, not only seeing the horrors of Communism firsthand, but also interviewing countless witnesses and investigating numberless sources about the events that had brought about Communism's triumph. The result was an historical narrative of unparalleled vigor, immediacy and accuracy. Upon its publication in 1928, critics could scarcely contain their excitement - one declaring: It is impossible to lay the book aside. Further excerpts from two (of many) significant reviews: If by any possible chance one opens it, or glances into the first chapter, one will surely read it from cover to cover. For Father Walsh tells 'the story of the triumph of folly in Russia and the penalty she paid for that historic madness' with such a wealth of dramatic incident,

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Author

Edmund A. Walsh

Publisher

Boston, Little, Brown

Published

1928

Language

EN

ISBN

9781929291311

Category

nonfiction

Rating

5 / 5 (2 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14