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Mr. Alexander Berkman, an anarchist of eminence amongst those holding

his peculiar views, was deported from the United States (where revolutionaries are not 'popular) in Deeeinber, 1919. He met his friends, Lenin, Trotsky, Karakhari and all their company; and had Icing talkS with'theni, as well as with Mr. Russell and Mr. Lansbury.• Until September of 1923, he kept a diary which is a vivid, although gloomy, account of things like the Che-ka, pogroms, - prisons—in short, of life in Russia. This is a book which all who want to know more about Bolshevism should buy. (The Bolsheiik :Myth; -By Alekander Berkman. Hutchinson. 18s.) -