Jimmie Higgins

An idealist Jimmie Higgins gets involved with the socialist movements which had begun to spread in Europe and the United States in the early 1900s. Jimmie Higgins is hired by German socialists and later joins the army to fight European imperialism, and finally ends up in Archangel in the Siberian Arctic to be introduced to Bolsheviks during the little known U.S. Attempt to restore the czarists to power.

Upton Sinclair was an American author and pioneer of investigative journalism who produced nearly 100 books and other works across a number of genres. He is best known for his classic muckraking novel, The Jungle, which exposed conditions in the U.S. Meat packing industry, causing a public uproar that contributed in part to the passage a few months later of the Pure Food and Drug Act and the Meat Inspection Act.

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