Dora Scarlett's life spanned the 20th century and was influenced by its great social movements. "A drop-out before the term was invented", she ran a smallholding in wartime Devon, became a Communist Party activist, traveled widely behind the Iron Curtain, and worked as a broadcaster at Radio Budapest. Her first-hand experience of the savage Soviet repression of the 1956 Hungarian Uprising destroyed her faith in Communism, and it was in a remote area...