Why I Escaped From Soviet Russia

By Alexander Evstifeef ``A Man Without a Country'': An Undesirable Alien

Seattle, Washington, U.S.A. 1932

Copyright 1932

Setting up, printing and binding all work done in spare time by Alexander Evstifeef.

606 8th Avenue, Seattle, Washington.

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Second Edition with 30 Illustrations

Errata. Through my inability to do this kind of work, several typographical errors appeared.

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Contents

Introduction
Preface
I.    Our First Sacrifice to Utopia of Communism
II.   That is the Communism! And Communist Ownership
III.  Free Voting in Siberia
IVV.    My Service on S. S. Dekabrist
VI.   On the Brink of My Doom
VII.  I Visited My Birth Place
VIII. My Escape to Latvia and Return
IX.   On the Way to Batum
X.    On the Cotton Plantation
XI.   Roses of Communism
XII.  Samples of Communistic Equality
XIII. How Bolsheviks Fooled the People at Home
XIV.  My Last Days in the Workers' Paradise
XV.   On the Way to the American Continent
XVI.  In U. S. A., but I am a Man Without a Country
Conclusion

Note from electronic transcriber

A few years ago I ran into this book deep on the shelves of the Walla Walla College Library. The book stood out from the other historical books about the Soviet Union first because of its title, but secondly because of its age. I had just enough time to skim this book before going to live in Moscow for a year, and would have completely forgotten its existence except for a conversation in which I recalled and used some details that this book had provided me. This sparked my curiosity, as I had now been to some of the place spoken of in this book, but before I was able to start seriously reading it I noticed that it was privately published, that it was rare and little known, and that this existing copy was in a state where it would soon be in pieces.

Given the unique first person pauper perspective of the book, and the amount of interesting details which describes an important era in the shaping of modern history, I decided to take the responsibility to preserve the book.

What you see here is the result of that work. The text was all typed in by hand, and then ran through a spell checker to flag typist errors; the original spelling of most words were not changed though. This document is as close as possible to the original book, except for the removal of many glaring type setting errors which were in the original. These errors included incorrect letters, upside down letters, doubled words or lines, or incorrect punctuation (such as a comma when a period was intended).

Given that the copyright for this book has expired, please feel free to use this material as you see fit.

Scott R. Parish
Jan. 9, 2003