Inside the Russian Revolution

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Macmillan, 1917 - 243 ページ
 

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1 ページ - May, 1917, a socialist, ai she says, by conviction and an ardent sympathizer with revolution, having known personally some of the brave men and women who suffered imprisonment and exile after the failure of the uprising in 1905. She returned from Russia "with a very clear conviction that the world will have to wait awhile before it can establish any cooperative millenniums or before it can safely hand over the work of government to the man in the street.
115 ページ - In other words, you should be informed of what was going to happen and when it was going to happen...
142 ページ - Sell all thou hast and give it to the poor and follow me," the young man went away very sorrowful.
219 ページ - It is one of the most beautiful cities in the world, and so full of historical interest.
47 ページ - It's a free country," say a group of men, stripping off their clothes before a crowd of women and children and taking a bath in the Neva. This occurs frequently on the Admiralty quay, a great pleasure resort in Petrograd.
242 ページ - In some respects thev are no further developed than the English of the reign of Henry the Eighth. They ride in street cars, but the street cars were made in Germany. They use the telephone, and go up stairs in a lift, but the telephone and the lift came from Sweden. They have only recently learned to use modern tools with skill or to farm scientifically. But they are learning very fast. They are learning to cooperate in their farming faster than almost any other people in Europe, which to my mind...
212 ページ - Criminal and mutinous soldiers in company with other criminal elements of the population have organized themselves into bands and have set themselves systematically to pillage and assassination. Under the flag of anarchy they have looted the banks, the shops, business houses of all kinds. They were prepared to murder all heads of public organizations, and declared that they would next move on to other towns and cities and continue their robberies there.
47 ページ - They called them Sans Culottes during the French Revolution," said a clever woman writer in one of the newspapers. "Our men will go down to fame as Sans Calec,ons. The difference, perhaps, between a political and a social revolution.

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