Mayfair to Moscow -- Clare Sheridan's Diary.
Impressions Of Post-Revolutionary Russia,
Recorded By Clare Sheridan, Churchill’s Cousin:
Signed and Inscribed
Sheridan, Clare. Mayfair to Moscow–Clare Sheridan’s Diary. New York: Boni & Liveright, (1921).
8vo.; frontispiece photograph of Sheridan; other photographs throughout; red cloth, stamped in gilt; covers lightly rubbed, pages bright.
First edition. A presentation copy, inscribed: For Mrs. Charles Dickey with the author’s compliments Clare Sheridan. March 1921.
Clare Sheridan was Winston Churchill‘s cousin and a well-known international reporter in her own right. She was one of the first Western women to travel through Russia shortly after the revolution. This diary contains Sheridan’s extensive reflections about post-revolutionary Soviet life and records her conversations with Lenin, Trotsky, and others.
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