Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Introduction A Note From the Translator and Editor Foreword by Mikhail Gorbunov-Posadov 1. Yelena Shershenyova: The New Jerusalem Tolstoy Commune 2. Boris Mazurin: The Life and Labor Commune: A History and Some Reflections 3. Dimitry Morgachev: My Life 4. From the Papers of Yakov Dragunovsky 5. Ivan Dragunovsky: From the Book One of My Lives Index

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