£30
TRIP TO RUSSIA: Josephine Patricia Campbell, June 1955: typescript account of the journey, manuscript notes and travel ephemera/documents, a small bundle. Mrs Campbell notes how 'Russian women fight shy of personal adornment and take refuge in a matt black...'. She is unimpressed by 'the shoddy workmanship of the women masons'. She is watched at all times and every time she leaves her flat 'the guard telephones his HQ'. Queue jumping 'is compulsory for foreigners' whilst ordinary Russian women are obliged to queue 'for at least 2 hours in the street' . Most shocking is the contrast 'between the manner of living of the man in the street and the very few privileged members of society...'. She concludes by lamenting 'the drabness and sameness about the Russian people' far removed 'from the lofty ideal of the state'. A perceptive if unsophisticated account of a trip to Russia at the height of the Cold War. (A bundle)
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