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Ernest Poole [1880-1950] American

Rank: 105
Novelist, Journalist

Ernest Cook Poole was an American journalist, novelist, and playwright. Poole is best remembered for his sympathetic first-hand reportage of revolutionary Russia during and immediately after the Revolution of 1905 and Revolution of 1917 and as a popular writer of proletarian-tinged fiction during the era of World War I and the 1920s.

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All the real things in Russia are done in the villages.		101
Here we grow the flax and grain; here we raise the meat they eat, and the wool to keep them warm; we cut trees to build their houses and firewood to heat their stoves.		102
The trouble with those people is that they think all the best things are made in the cities. It is not so.		103
What kind of crops do they raise in the towns? Only Grand Dukes, Bolsheviks and drunkards!		104

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