Russia is a penetrating account of three long journeys that Kazantzakis made to the Soviet Union between 1925 and 1930. It is a journal that delineates the nature of the greatest upheaval of our time -the Bolshevik Revolution- and its impact on the social and spiritual evolution of mankind. While at the same time that he paints a fascinating picture of the vast land and its possessed leaders: Lenin, Trotsky and Stalin, Kazantzakis draws unforgettable portraits of Russia's great writers: Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Blok and Mayakovsky.