The Village: Russian Impressions

Authors: Ernest Poole, Norman E. Saul & Norman E. Saul

Former Soviet Union, USSR (Europe) | c 1918 to c 1939 (Inter-war period) | European history | 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000 | Russian Revolution

Published on 2^nd December 2025 by Anthem Press in the United Kingdom as part of the 'Anthem Americans in Revolutionary Russia' series.

Hardback | 150 pages
229mm x 153mm | 375g

Chicago native, political activist, and journalist Ernest Poole (1880-1950) provides a distinctive view of the  Bolshevik Revolution in his work, The Village: Russian Impressions. This work is unusual in the library of American accounts of Revolutionary Russia because it addresses the world of the Russian peasants, far away from the revolutionary centers of Petrograd and Moscow. He associated with a Russian priest, a doctor, a teacher, and a mill owner who offered a perspective not normally seen in the history of the Bolshevik Revolution. Poole's own views and those of the people he visited provide a fascinating account of the revolutionary era that helps readers a century later understand the complexity of this fascinating time.