It has been long known among ux that Rusyia was the country that:
fered mont under the tyranny of the landlord, The whole Ri system was built upon a bureaucracy with the Tsar as the nominal head, but with the ruling in complete control of the government, religion, and nearly everything else throughout the length and breadth of that land of great distances. The Grand Dukes and other Dukes, and the relatives to the last degree owned the estates upon which the serfs lived lives of the greatest poverty and dogra: tion, while the owners lived in affluence. It is impossible to paint the picture too dark. Russian wai land of horror.
Before the Great War there scemed no hope for Russia. The system that had developed there left little room for the reformer. Reformers there were and many of them suffered exile, death and confiscation of property for their zeal. One class of such agitators that originate ed in Russia were the Anarchists, They are not much to be blamed for opposing all ity when one remembers the class of ruler they knew in Russia. All authority way to them anathema. All their pro-Paganda was set toward the elimin ation of the autocrat.
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