Ernest Poole on Revolutionary Russia

Ernest Poole's accounts of Revolutionary Russia -"The Dark People" and The Village - are published together for the first time, due to the unique insight they offer into the impact of war and revolution on rural communities. Through a series of interviews and conversations, Poole describes the daily hardships that people faced, while revealing tensions between villages and cities, soldiers and civilians, young and old, idealists and the more practically minded. In this way, his accounts provide a counter-balance to those that focus on developments in the cities.