N.p. [Evansville, IN?]: Privately Published, N.d. [ca 1920]. Sole edition. Octavo. Blue ribbed cloth, titled in black on spine and front cover; portrait frontispiece and nine inserted leaves of photographic plates (halftones). A tight, Near Fine copy in the original cloth.

Terpenning, a Michigan-trained sociologist, traveled to Russia in 1918 as a representative of the Y.M.C.A. but found his work interrupted by the ongoing civil war. His memoir covers a period of about two years spent among peasants along the Onega River front, some hundred kilometers south of the city of Archangel. Terpenning's account of the Russian peasantry is largely anecdotal, with observations on local religious and cultural customs; two chapters include eye-witness accounts of military activities at the front, the steady advance of the Bolsheviki, and the retreat of the ANREF. Illustrated from original photographs by the author. Quite a nice copy of a scarce and early Russian Revolution-era memoir.

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Bookseller: Lorne Bair Rare Books (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 60373
Title: To Russia and Return
Author: [RUSSIAN REVOLUTION] TERPENNING, Walter A
Book Condition: Used
Quantity Available: 1
Publisher: Privately Published
Place of Publication: N.p. [Evansville, IN?]
Date Published: N.d. [ca 1920]
Bookseller catalogs: WW1; Russian Revolution;

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