Workers Paradise Lost. The 50 Year failure of Soviet Communism

by Eugene Lyons

For 50 years, Russia has been the stage of a vast human tragedy. In this book, the Iron Curtain parts and the drama unfolds act by act; the Bolshevik seizure of power, the planned society, the purges and persecutions, the famines and Siberian camps, the rise of a new aristocracy. WORKERS' PARADISE LOST is a drama of horror unequaled in history, but it is also a tribute to the quality and heroism of the Russian peoples.

Genres: History, Nonfiction, Russia, Politics

Paperback

First published June 1, 1967

About the author

American Anticommunist.

In his younger years Lyons was a member of the Young People’s Socialist League the youth section of the Socialist Party USA.

He became critical of the Soviet Union after working there as a correspondent of United Press International.

During the early 1940s and the Second Red Scare which followed World War II, Lyons was a frequent contributor to the popular press on anti-Communist themes, targeting liberals if Lyons deemed them inadequate in their denunciations of the Soviet regime.

Lyons also wrote a biography of President Herbert Hoover.

Reviews

[J.S. Nelson · Rating 4 out of 5]

Should be read in schools

[Brian Harmon · Rating 5 out of 5]

Lyons presents a fact-filled and tightly argued critique of the Soviet Union. As a Communist, Lyons wrote favorably of the USSR and Stalin in the 20's and 30's, including in his experience an extended stay in the country and a widely acclaimed personal interview with Stalin. Lyons was in a special position to evaluate the Soviet Unions promises versus performance. It was a great read.