Bertrand Russell, a Welsh atheist, wore many hats including philosopher, historical, logician, mathematician, and social reformist. In 1950 he won a Nobel Prize in literature for his humanitarianism and freedom of thought. Russell spent one month in Soviet Russia in 1920 and recorded his impressions in this essay. This is a work of commentary, of reflections, and journalism. The book gives a Westerner"s valuable view of the prospects of Lenin"s Russia.