The impressions left on the reader's mind after reading this book are very mixed. Support of the present regime is unthinkable, but on the other hand there is nothing to choose between Red and White, yet the peasant clearly cannot govern himself. eau thor's prophecy of the probable outcome may be quoted History has frequently furnished the spectacle of rough barbarians descend. ing from the hills to conquer a great pacific people, and to found a ruling caste which in course of time becomes corrupted by luxury and is swept away. The empire-smashing barbarians of the future will come from the mines and workshops of nations which brutalize the lower classes and cause them to Jose at this same time their own ancient virtue; but in these rapid days the degeneration of the conquerors will be swift, and in Russia it shows every sign of being already complete.
"A probable outcome of the present Russian experiment will be a military reaction involving, the extermination of half a million Reds, and perhaps another half million of more or less inoffensive Jews, and the persecution by the Whites, for 20 years, of those Socialists and Liberels whom Lenin hated, and who will probably have done most. towards bringing—about Lenin's fall. Then the pendulum will awing from right to left and from left to right, until finanally it settles at a federated bourgeois republic.
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