Hitherto the world has been unable to gauge the strength of the anti-Bolshevik movement now proceeding in Russia, but in spite of many previous disappointments people are still ready to hope that it may be the prelude to the overthrow of Lenin and Trotzky. It seems fairly certain that the revolution far exceeds anything previously attempted. and a book issued by a Bolshevik Commissar, named Lacis, throws a good deal of light on the support its promoters hoped to obtain. He mentions that during 1918 and 1919 there were no fewer than 344 anti-Bolshevik revolts in the country, while the counter-revolutionary plots discovered numbered 412. Even in a country so large as Russia this is a very considerable total, and the amount of irreconcilable anti-Soviet sentiment it represents is further emphasized by a remark of Lacis, "Unless terror had existed, the people would long ago have thrown off the Soviet power." These attempts may have a further interest, for upon their coordination it may have been that Kerensky made his most recent utterance on the state of the counter-revolutionary movement—that the measures being taken would astonish the world.
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