When I was bigger I remember that first morning after Rasputin was drowned. All the papers were full of it. I also have a general impression of the first revolution, when the Provisional Government was in. There was such joy at the revolution and the government, they all felt that Russia was ready for democratic government, Irina Sergevna Tidmarsh. After collectivization, life was difficult, there were queues for food and people were accused of being wreckers and of deliberately sabotaging ... Soviet newspapers were full of stories about depression and unemployment in the capitalist world'....