Dec. 30.
Soviet Russia presents to the student of politics and economics: an exceedingly fascinating study the forces of gravity operating in human affairs, In 1917, a small group of Bolsheviks, members of the majority of the Ruxsian Social Democratic Party, were able to seize the: capital and the government and to establish a Soviet Socialist republic. They overthrow the ment of Kerensky; they made 4 separate peace with Germany; they drove all foreigners from their country and they murdered the Tsar and his family. Having achieved this much, they set about experimenting in political social and economic institutions.
They suppressed democracy and established a dictatorship of the proletariat, but this, in fact, was a dictatorship by a'small group of intellectuals, largely returned students from French, German and Swiss universities supported by the urbanized proletariat of the few large industrial cities ud strengthened by an expanding Red Army under the comand of Comrade Trotzky, a civilian. 'The peasants, who constituts the vast bulk' of the Russian people, were recognized as "dark" folk, that is, intellectually incapable of absorbing
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