Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- General Introduction
- Editorial Foreword
- Preface
- Introduction to New Edition
- Notes on Further Reading
- Corrections to this Edition
- I THE TREATY OF PEACE
- II INFLATION AND DEFLATION
- III THE RETURN TO THE GOLD STANDARD
- IV POLITICS
- 1 A SHORT VIEW OF RUSSIA (1925)
- 2 THE END OF LAISSEZ-FAIRE (1926)
- 3 AM I A LIBERAL? (1925)
- 4 LIBERALISM AND LABOUR (1926)
- V THE FUTURE
- VI LATER ESSAYS
- Index
1 - A SHORT VIEW OF RUSSIA (1925)
from IV - POLITICS
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 November 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- General Introduction
- Editorial Foreword
- Preface
- Introduction to New Edition
- Notes on Further Reading
- Corrections to this Edition
- I THE TREATY OF PEACE
- II INFLATION AND DEFLATION
- III THE RETURN TO THE GOLD STANDARD
- IV POLITICS
- 1 A SHORT VIEW OF RUSSIA (1925)
- 2 THE END OF LAISSEZ-FAIRE (1926)
- 3 AM I A LIBERAL? (1925)
- 4 LIBERALISM AND LABOUR (1926)
- V THE FUTURE
- VI LATER ESSAYS
- Index
Summary
Keynes wrote the three articles which were later published as A Short View of Russia when he and Lydia Lopokova visited Russia in 1925 soon after their marriage. The articles first appeared in the Nation and Athenaeum, 10, 17 and 25 October 1925, and were reprinted by the Hogarth Press as one of the series of Hogarth Essays in December of the same year. Keynes primarily included chapters I and III in Essays in Persuasion.
PREFACE
These chapters are the fruit of a brief visit to Russia in September 1925 by one ignorant of the language and of the country, but not without experience of the people, and in the company of an interpreter. The occasion was found in the bicentenary celebrations of the Academy of Sciences, once the Imperial Academy of Petersburg, now of Leningrad, at which I represented the University of Cambridge.
They are not based on intimate knowledge or close experience, and claim no authority as such. They are merely the impressions, for what they are worth, of an observer, whose prejudices were not specially calculated to distort his sight, endeavouring to convey, as best he can, how Russia struck him.
I use not infrequently in what follows the epithet religious as applicable to the disciples of Lenin. Judging from letters which I received when these chapters were appearing in the Nation, I believe that Englishmen will see what I mean; but in Russia there will be few, I gather, who will approve or understand this use of language.
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- The Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes , pp. 253 - 271Publisher: Royal Economic SocietyPrint publication year: 1978