Publications
Official Organ
The first publication of the Russian Soviet Government Bureau was a weekly information bulletin, first published on March 3, 1919. A total of 13 issues were produced, with the final issue appearing on May 26. This weekly bulletin was intended as a sort of news service for the use of various periodicals.
The Russian Soviet Government Bureau came to the view that an expanded magazine targeted to a broader readership was called for, and on June 7, 1919, a 16-page magazine called Soviet Russia: A Weekly Devoted to Spread the Truth About Russia was launched. According to its editor, Soviet Russia was intended "to acquaint the People of the United States with the real conditions in Russia and to combat the campaign of deliberate misrepresentation which is being waged by enemies of the Russian workers..." The magazine was intended to be the voice of the Soviet government abroad rather than a tool of the domestic American communist movement. "There is nothing secret, sinister, or opprobrious about this publication," the editor asserted. On the contrary, it was contended that a handful of publications "more or less secretly financed by Russian counter-revolutionists" were the ones responsible for the real "sinister and insidious propaganda" -- an effort to "seduce and bully the people of America to spend their money and their lives in the reestablishment in Russia of that rule of the few."
(fn. Soviet Russia, v. 1, no. 1 (June 7, 1919), pg. 1.) Pamphlets and Books
In its initial phase, the Russian Soviet Government Bureau did not produce its own pamphlet literature, but rather refered its readers to other groups publishing material which the Bureau believed to be factually based. Some of the publishers and publications touted by the Bureau during 1919 included:
Publication of The Dial (New York, NY)
A Voice Out of Russia. -- (10 cents)
Publication of Charles H. Kerr & Co. (Chicago, IL)
Williams, Albert Rhys: The Bolsheviki and the Red Funeral at Vladivostock. -- (10 cents)
Publication of The Melting Pot (St. Louis, MO)
Voices from Russia. -- (25 cents)
Publications of The Nation (New York, NY)
The Russian Constitution. -- (10 cents)
Decrees of the Russian Government. -- (10 cents)
Reprints of Articles on Russia. -- (10 cents)
Russian Land Law. -- (10 cents)
Publication of The New Republic (New York, NY)
Ransome, Arthur: Open Letter to America. -- (5 cents)
Publications of The People’s Institute (San Francisco, CA)
Lenin, N.: Lessons of the Revolution. -- (10 cents)
Trotzky, Leon: What is a Peace Program? -- (5 cents)
Publications of The Rand School (New York, NY)
Lenin, N.: The Soviets at Work. -- (25 cents)
Williams, Albert Rhys: The Bolshevists and the Soviets. -- (10 cents)
Publications of The Socialist Publication Society (Brooklyn, NY)
Educational Decrees and Other Educational Documents of the Soviet Government. -- (25 cents)
Lenin, N.: The State and Revolutiion. -- (50 cents)
One Year of Revolution. -- (15 cents)
Price, M. Philips: The Old Order in Europe and the New Order in Russia. -- (10 cents)
Price, M. Philips: The Soviet, the Terror, and Intervention. -- (10 cents)
Radek and Ransome on Russia. -- (5 cents)
Trotzky, Leon -- From October to Brest-Litovsk. --(35 cents)
Books
Beatty, Bessie: The Red Heart of Russia. (Published by The Century Co.)
Bryant, Louise: Six Red Months in Russia.
Lenin and Trotzky: The Proletarian Revolution in Russia. (Louis Fraina, ed.) (Published by The Revolutionary Age).
Ransome, Arthur: Six Weeks in Russia in 1919. (Published by B.W. Huebsch).
Reed, John: Ten Days That Shook the World. (Published by Boni & Liveright).
Ross, Edward Alsworth: Russia in Upheaval. (Published by The Century Co.)
"Various Soviet Authorities": A Year of Proletarian Dictatorship. (Published by The NY Communist).
