Unchained Russia Author:Charles Edward Russell After the “first” Russian Revolution of 1917, when the old regime of Czar Nicholas was supplanted by the unhappy democratic government of Alexander Kerensky, President Woodrow Wilson sent a special diplomatic mission to Russia as a token of fraternal camaraderie – the U.S. had just entered the World War and hoped that Kerensky’s government woul... more »d remain a firm ally against Germany. One member of that mission was Russell, a veteran American Socialist – former Socialist Party candidate for Governor of New York and Mayor of New York City - who was expected to lend a sympathetic ear to Kerensky and his fellow democratic Socialists in Moscow and Petrograd. This is Russell's account of the journey - written, in sad retrospect, after the "second" Revolution which brought Lenin's Bolsheviks to power and removed Russia from the War - a tragedy, in Russell's eyes, which could have been avoided had the United States been more supportive of Kerensky. A fascinating and scarce account of the Russian revolutionary era, from an unusual American perspective.« less