Political Tourists: Travellers from Australia to the Soviet Union in the 1920s–1940s, edited by Sheila Fitzpatrick and Carolyn Rasmussen; Melbourne University Press, 2008, $49.95. The phenomenon of Soviet fellow travellers is well known—true believers from the West who travelled to the Soviet Union between the 1920s and the 1950s, many deliriously wanting to believe it was a burgeoning paradise. They were duchessed into believing their dreams were true. The exhaustive exposé on this topic is Paul Hollander’s book Political Pilgrims. Fellow travellers were not randomly selected—they tended to be people with big egos and ideological minds, both of which rendered…