40 kuukautta Neuvosto-Venäjällä

A first-person memoir records an extended stay in the nascent Soviet state, combining eyewitness anecdotes with analytical chapters on political and social change. The narrator describes urban scenes of poverty, disrupted military life, and the visibility of revolutionary forces, while following the rise of revolutionary security institutions, episodes of arrests and terror, and attempts to consolidate power. The account examines housing, food supply, peasant conditions, and ideological shifts as Bolshevik rule moves toward communism, offering a ground-level portrait of institutional transformation, everyday hardship, and the social consequences of revolutionary governance.