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Search - I Visit The Soviets - The Provincial Lady Looks At Russia

I Visit The Soviets The Provincial Lady Looks At Russia
Author: E. M. Delafield

CONTENTS COMMUNE i THE NEW MRS. TROLLOPE 80 THEY ALSO SERVE 109 MARGARET WAS RIGHT 122 MlSS-BLAKE-AND MlSS BOLTON 147 Moscou D VOILE 1 57 MR. FAIRCHILD IN Moscow 195 CONVERSATION IN ROSTOV 202 WITHOUT COMMENT 215 SAVOYARD 228 SPECIAL INVESTIGATION 267 THE ARISTOCRAT 275 INCIDENT AT ODESSA 302 To SPEAK MY MIND 316 ILLUSTRATIONS Facing page-The wo... more »rst trial was to see and hear the macaroni being dealt with on the opposite side of the table. 32 One couple danced a very attractive peasant dance. 72 The pavements, like the trams, are thronged. 92 The Park of Rest and Culture. 128 The tram is invariably bunged to the roof with pale, grimy, heavily built Comrades. I often think of the Black Hole of Calcutta. 1 66 The agronome in a towering rage is planted on a chair in the middle of the rooms. 240 The smoke-blackened demons are female. 278 Why are nearly all the male Comrades so thin and all the female ones so stout 308 I VISIT THE SOVIETS COMMUNE IT WAS IN THE INCONGRUOUS SET ting of an expensive London restaurant that an American publisher was moved to exclaim to an astonished dinner-guest whose novels he had pub lished for years I. wish to Heavens youd go and live on a Col lective Farm in Russia for six months, and write a funny book about it 7 Funny Sure. Nobody has been at all funny yet, about Russia. I admitted that I thought I probably might be funny enough in Russia, but that I didnt think I could be very funny about it. Especially not about a Collective Farm. Besides, they wouldnt have me there. I VISIT TJIK SOVIETS That could be arranged he replied firmly and, as I afterwards discovered, without the faintest justification. Theyd expect me to work, and I dont know anything about fanning I dare say you could help about the house said my publisher blithely, Anyhow, you could make plenty of contacts, and get aslant on the womens point of view. Its a grand idea Not only did I not think it a grand idea, but I had no faintest intention of putting it into action. Have some caviar my publisher said per haps with some thought of making me more Soviet-minded and I hope it was from kindness and hospitality only that he also offered me some excellent champagne. Then in the evenings he went on dreamily, they all sit round and talk you know what Russians areand tell you the stories of their Iftcs. That would be perfectly splendid, except that I dont know a word of Russian 7 I dare say you can learn it before you go. Its not as difficult as people think. And anyway, some of them would speak a little English or German or

ISBN-13: 9781406721416
ISBN-10: 1406721417
Publication Date: 3/15/2007
Pages: 372
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Publisher: Smyth Press
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