This page from the diary kept by Margaret Bondfield during her visit to Russia in 1920 as part of a British Labour delegation, described the preparations to cross the border from Estonia into Russia. The 1920 delegation comprised Ben Turner, Ethel Snowden, Tom Shaw and Robert Williams from the Labour Party; Margaret Bondfield, A. A. Purcell and H. Skinner from the TUC. The joint secretaries to the delegation were Charles Roden Buxton and L. Haden Guest, R.C. Wallhead and Clifford Allen from the Independent Labour Party accompanied the delegation.
The delegation condemned foreign military intervention and the international trade blockade on Russia, which was encouraging famine and disease, and called for the Russian Government to be recognised by other states.

Title	Margaret Bondfield in Russia 1920.
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Production Date	1920
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Holding Institution	TUC Library Collections, London Metropolitan University
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