![]() The resulting observations, published in a series in the Daily News under the title, “What I saw in Russia”, paint a unique picture of the lives of the Russian people and the revolution. We are proud to present here, for the first time, a collection of his articles and photographs from that visit Journalist, Walter Meakin, traveled to Russia with a British Labour delegation in 1920 and gave a scrupulously honest account of what he found. But unlike many of his co-observers, who spent the whole trip sojourning with counter-revolutionaries, Meakin was determined to tell the truth to a British audience. Journalist Walter Meakin joined this delegation. In the summer of 1920, the British Labour Party and the TUC (Trades Union Congress) sent a delegation to Russia to witness the revolutionary process as it unfolded. They are a priceless panorama of the Russian Revolution in its third year. Many of these astonishing articles and photographs have not been seen since their publication over a century ago. To celebrate the anniversary of these remarkable events, we are excited to make the following eye-witness account of revolutionary Russia in 1920 available to an online audience. One hundred and four years ago, the Russian working class seized power. ![]()
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