The account of a British socialist’s fact-finding mission to Soviet Russia in the early 1920s. Lansbury became leader of the Labour Party in 1932, and was succeeded by his deputy Clement Atlee in 1935. Lansbury’s account provides a firsthand view of the nation’s efforts to rebuild after the revolution, as well as its profound impact on the global left and the future of international relations. He is perhaps known outside politics as grandfather of the British American actress Angela Lansbury.