One American Jesuit was there when Lenin and Stalin disemboweled Christian Russia Now his towering masterpiece is back after 75 years When Fr Edmund Walsh SJ first crossed from Latvia into Soviet Russia on the night of March 21 1922 the Russian people were suffering an appalling famine engineered by their Communist masters As director of the papal relief effort Fr Walsh would spend the next several years traveling the Red empire not only seeing the horrors of Communism firsthand but also interviewing countless witnesses and investigating numberless sources about the events that had brought about Communism s triumph The result was an historical narrative of unparalleled vigor immediacy and accuracy Upon its publication in 1928 critics could scarcely contain their excitement one declaring It is impossible to lay the book aside Further excerpts from two of many significant reviews If by any possible chance one opens it or glances int