Book · 1930 · Fiction
Tintin in the Land of the Soviets
Little, Brown and Co. (Hachette) · 141 pages
★ 4.4 editorial score
Hergé sent his boy reporter into a Soviet Union he had never visited, cribbed from one anti-Bolshevik tract of rigged elections and staged factories. Crude work, and the series it opened conquered Europe.
