About the book: 2020 / The collection includes texts published in Russian for the first time by the American writer and publicist George Sylvester Viereck (1884–1962) about the Soviet Union, which he visited in July 1929, wanting to see the “new world” with his own eyes. Materials from Russian archives and rare foreign publications reveal the evolution of the author’s ideas about Russia and the USSR - from anti-Entente propaganda during the First World War to attention to the “great experiment” in the 1920s, and then to the denial of totalitarianism, including in Soviet form . Criticizing the ideology and policies of the Soviet regime, Vireck wrote with sympathy about the Russian people, who found themselves “prisoners of utopia.” The publication is equipped with an annotated index of names and is addressed to a wide range of readers interested in the Russian history of the twentieth century. Publishing design preserved in PDF A4 format.