The Russia I believe in; the memoirs of Samuel N. Harper, 1902-1941.
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Chicago, Ill.,
University of Chicago Press
[1945]
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Table of Contents:
- The beginnings. Life with my father ; Why did I study Russia?
- Breaking the back of the Russian language, 1902-5. L'Ecole des langues orientales, Paris ; The University of Moscow
- I become a student of politics : the early Dumas, 1906-10. The First Duma : history in the making ; Side lights on the days of the First Duma ; The reaction, travels in Russia ; I train myself in political science, Columbia University
- My English-Russian period, 1911-13. Teaching and life at the University of Liverpool ; Developments and travels in Russia
- The war and the revolutions, 1914-17. The forces developing during the first war year ; I become Special Adviser to Governor Francis ; The March revolution, we enter the war
- The end of the war and after, 1918-25. Russia becomes a difficult problem ; The Slavs come to Washington ; My work in the State Department ; Years of waiting
- Soviet Russia emerging, 1926-36. 1926 : Soviet civic training (Getting into Soviet Russia again ; Soviet Russia under the new economic policy in 1926 ; Study of civic training) ; 1927-29 : what others thought about Soviet Russia ; 1930 : making Bolsheviks : the first five-year plan ; 1932 : the Bolsheviks tighten their belts ; 1932 : through the spectacles of the Near East ; 1932 : London ; 1933 : recognition ; 1934 : life in Russia has become more joyous ; 1935 : diplomatic incidents in a university ; 1936 : the year of the Constitution
- The press. The press
- The next five years, 1937-June 22, 1941. Some summaries of Russian problems (Soviet democratism ; The Moscow trials ; The isolation of Russia, Munich) ; Last look at Europe (Some Slavic diplomatic portraits ; London in 1939 : April ; Moscow in 1939 : May ; Warsaw in 1939 : June ; the German-Soviet Pact) ; Russia acts alone (The march into Poland ; Finland ; The Baltic States ; Russia and America ; Russia and Germany, the German attack).