Aleksandr N. Lenkoff was a Russian soldier who first served during World War I and eventually became an editor for an anti-communist newspaper after settling in San Francisco. He was born in 1896 and graduated from the Petergoff gymnasium in 1914, beginning work at a steel factory soon after until World War I began. He enlisted in the army in the same year and eventually became a captain, and during the civil war that followed, he served as an officer. In the wake of the Bolshevik victory, he retreated to China with the Siberian volunteer army in 1922 and became a soldier in the Chinese Army in 1925. In 1936 he engaged in civilian work in China until 1948, when he was evacuated by American forces to the Philippines and then to the United States in 1953. In this interview, Lenkoff discusses his experiences as a soldier and his ideas on communism and government. This interview is part of a group of interviews documenting Russian émigrés in California.