Charles Edward Russell Bolshevism and the United States. Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Publishers, 1919. First edition. 341 pages. Volume, measuring approximately 5.25" x 7.5", is bound in red cloth, with stamped gilt lettering to spine and front cover. Book shows shelfwear, with sunning to spine and light soiling to covers. Binding is sound. Endpapers display offsetting from laid-in material. A small number of the upper outside corners are dog eared. Pages are clean and withoout markings. Charles Edward Russell (1860-1941) was an American journalist, opinion columnist, newspaper editor, and political activist. After the February Revolution, Russell was named by Wilson to join a mission led by Elihu Root that was intended to keep the Russian Provisional Government of Alexander Kerensky in the war. Russell appears as himself in the 1917 film "The Fall of the Romanoffs," directed by Herbert Brenon.
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