Among the Red Autocrats: My Experience in the Service of the Soviets

by George Solomon, Dr. Arno C. Gaebelein (Editor)

Overview

First published in 1935, this is the full and frank account of author George Solomon’s service to the Soviet Government during the Russian Civil War.

Solomon, who was named First Secretary to the Commissar for Commerce and Industry, Leonid Borisovich Krasin, in July 1918, provides a detailed record of his time with the Red Autocrats, beginning with assuming his new position and his first meeting with L. B. Krasin in Germany in July of 1918, being welcomed as an enemy in his native Russia in June 1919, to representing the Commission of Administration to take over all the business transactions in Estonia in August 1920 and, finally, arriving in England in June 1921, before his retirement from service on August 1, 1923.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781787205048
Publisher:	Muriwai Books
Publication date:	06/28/2017
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	171
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

GEORGE SOLOMON (1868-1934) was a member of the Bolshevik Party who in July 1918 was named assistant to the People’s Commissar for Commerce and Industry, Leonid Borisovich Krasin (1870-1926).

Solomon would go on to become a close friend of Krasin, a Russian engineer and an old Bolshevik, who was simultaneously Commissar of Railroads and Communications at the time.

Solomon served as First Secretary from 1919-1923.

He died in 1934.

ARNO CLEMENS GAEBELEIN (August 27, 1861 - December, 1945) was a Methodist minister in the United States of America. He was a prominent teacher and conference speaker. He was also the father of educator and philosopher of Christian education Frank E. Gaebelein.

He did not support the Christian Zionists in their alliance with the Zionist Organisation. In 1899, he left the Methodist Episcopal Church because of its theological liberalism.

He was also the editor of Our Hope, a Christian periodical, for a number of years, and was a close assistant to Dr. C. I. Scofield on his monumental work, the Scofield Reference Bible.

Dr. Gaebelin’s published works include: The Harmony of the Prophetic Word: A Key to Old Testament Prophecy Concerning Things to Come (1903); The Prophet Daniel (1911); The Jewish Question (1912); Christ and Glory (1918); The Healing Question (1925); and The Christ We Know (1927).

He died in 1945 aged 84.