Red Dusk and the Morrow: Adventures and Investigations in Red Russia
Dukes, Paul, 1889-1967Project Gutenberg · United StatesDec 2019
Rating 3.8- Word count
- 536K words
- Chapters
- 54
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English Originals World History Political AllegoryAdventure JourneyPower GameSocial CritiqueDocumentary NarrativeSocial ObservationSummary
Project Gutenberg was the first provider of free electronic books, or eBooks. Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and his memory continues to inspire the creation of eBooks and related technologies today.Red Dusk and the Morrow: Adventures and Investigations in Red Russia by Paul DukesAuthor: Dukes, Paul, 1889-1967,Language: English, Class: UB: Military science: Military administration, Release Date: Aug 29, 2018Editor's review
This book is the English account by the British intelligence officer Paul Dukes of his experiences and investigations in Soviet Russia, combining the qualities of adventure narrative and observational notebook. Writing as a witness, the author depicts the social landscape and political atmosphere of Red Russia, and his prose has the immediacy characteristic of early twentieth-century travel reportage, making it valuable for understanding the Western perspective of that era. The book is classified under military science, yet it is far more readable than ordinary specialist literature and suits readers interested in early Soviet history, intelligence activities, and cross-cultural observation. As a public-domain electronic text, it is better used as a source-oriented reading and a supplement of comparative perspective than as a systematic, neutral history textbook. Read with critical distance, checking the author's stance against historical fact, to draw out its layers.Who it's for
A good fit for
- Readers interested in early Soviet history and the international situation of the early twentieth century
- Readers who enjoy firsthand reportage and adventure-investigation nonfiction
- Scholars and students of intelligence history, travel writing, and Western perceptions of Soviet Russia
- Readers who want to train source criticism on a firsthand English text
Not a good fit for
- Introductory history readers expecting a systematic, neutral general history
- Readers unwilling to distinguish the author's personal stance and period biases
- Readers who want only light entertainment and dislike politics and investigation
Reading tips
- Before reading, learn the basic historical outline of early twentieth-century Soviet Russia to situate the events.
- Mark the author's subjective judgments as you read and check them against reliable sources, keeping critical notes.
- Read chapter by chapter by theme, sorting adventure observations from investigative analysis.
- Afterward, supplement with contemporary accounts from other perspectives and compare their differences.
About the publisher
Project Gutenberg United States · Founded in 1971Project Gutenberg is a digital publishing project focused on public-domain ebooks. Its publishing direction centers on classic literary works whose copyright has expired, covering genres such as poetry, drama, fiction, and epic. Representative books include Lyrical Ballads by Wordsworth and Coleridge, Proust's Du côté de chez Swann, Shakespeare's Macbeth and The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Homer's The Iliad, Dante's La Divina Comèdia: Purgatòri, Cervantes's The History of Don Quixote, Volume 2, and Grahame's The Wind in the Willows. Its author resources consist mainly of classic Western writers such as Wordsworth, Proust, Shakespeare, Homer, Dante, Cervantes, Grahame, and Tolstoy. Its publishing feature is the provision of freely accessible ebooks in EPUB and Kindle formats; it is not a traditional publisher, and publicly available information is limited.
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FAQ
Is this book a novel or a work of reportage?
It is an English nonfiction work based on the author's firsthand experience and investigations, containing adventure observations and observations of Soviet society; it is not a fictional novel.What background knowledge is needed to read this book?
A basic knowledge of early twentieth-century Soviet history is best, along with some English reading ability. The book involves political and military contexts, and without background it is easy to misread the author's stance.Can the accounts in the book be treated as reliable historical sources?
They can be used as a reference for a firsthand perspective, but the author has clear period stances and personal judgments, so they should not stand alone as historical evidence; cross-check with other sources.This site is an index: you start “Search all sources” in your browser, and the entries it lists all point to third-party sites; please judge their availability yourself.
About the author
Dukes, Paul, 1889-1967 AuthorPaul Dukes (1889-1967) is an author about whom little biographical information survives; public records are limited, and his nationality, education, and professional career cannot be reliably established. What is known is that he wrote Red Dusk and the Morrow: Adventures and Investigations in Red Russia, the only work by him held in this collection. As the title suggests, the book concerns "Red Russia" and records the author's adventures and investigations there, belonging to the genre of documentary travel and observational writing. Works of this kind typically present a foreign society through a first-hand perspective, combining reportage with personal narrative and offering readers a direct impression of social conditions in Soviet Russia at the time. Given the scarcity of sources, Dukes's broader output and literary standing remain to be further verified, and readers should approach him through the specific content of this book.