ABSTRACT
(1) In 1920 Russell visited the USSR in the company, although not strictly as a member, of a British Labour Party delegation. In the same year he published The Practice and Theory of Bolshevism, his assessment of the regime established by what was later to take the name of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Bolsheviks). In his Prefatory Note for the 2nd edition, written in October 1948, Russell was able to say: ‘If I were writing now, some things would be differently said, but in all major respects I adhere to the view of Russian Communism which I took in 1920, and its subsequent development has been not unlike what I expected.’ 1
