Sir,—Dr Jenny Farrell takes issue with me (HI 27.6, Nov./Dec. 2019, letters) for ascribing to Liam O’Flaherty ‘disillusionment’ with the Soviet Union, referring to his 1931 book I went to Russia (HI 27.5, Sept./Oct. 2019, ‘The Radical Club, a 1920s forum for “progressive cultural activity”’). In fact, I said only that he wrote a ‘disillusioned account’ ... Read more
