{"product_id":"2940013414761","title":"BOLSHEVISM","description":"CONTENTS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e        PREFACE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     I. THE HISTORICAL BACKGROUND\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    II. FROM REVOLUTION TO REVOLUTION\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   III. THE WAR AND THE PEOPLE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    IV. THE SECOND REVOLUTION\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     V. FROM BOURGEOISIE TO BOLSHEVIKI\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    VI. THE BOLSHEVIK WAR AGAINST DEMOCRACY\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   VII. BOLSHEVIST THEORY AND PRACTICE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e        POSTSCRIPTUM: A PERSONAL STATEMENT\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAPPENDICES:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     I. AN APPEAL TO THE PROLETARIAT BY THE PETROGRAD WORKMEN'S AND\u003cbr\u003e        SOLDIERS' COUNCIL\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    II. HOW THE RUSSIAN PEASANTS FOUGHT FOR A CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   III. FORMER SOCIALIST PREMIER OF FINLAND ON BOLSHEVISM\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePREFACE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the following pages I have tried to make a plain and easily\u003cbr\u003eunderstandable outline of the origin, history, and meaning of Bolshevism. I\u003cbr\u003ehave attempted to provide the average American reader with a fair and\u003cbr\u003ereliable statement of the philosophy, program, and policies of the Russian\u003cbr\u003eBolsheviki. In order to avoid confusion, and to keep the matter as simple\u003cbr\u003eand clear as possible, I have not tried to deal with the numerous\u003cbr\u003emanifestations of Bolshevism in other lands, but have confined myself\u003cbr\u003estrictly to the Russian example. With some detail--too much, some of my\u003cbr\u003ereaders may think!--I have sketched the historical background in order that\u003cbr\u003ethe Bolsheviki may be seen in proper perspective and fairly judged in\u003cbr\u003econnection with the whole revolutionary movement in Russia.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhoever turns to these pages in the expectation of finding a sensational\u003cbr\u003e\"exposure\" of Bolshevism and the Bolsheviki will be disappointed. It has\u003cbr\u003ebeen my aim to make a deliberate and scientific study, not an _ex-parte_\u003cbr\u003eindictment. A great many lurid and sensational stories about the Bolsheviki\u003cbr\u003ehave been published, the net result of which is to make the leaders of this\u003cbr\u003ephase of the great universal war of the classes appear as brutal and\u003cbr\u003edepraved monsters of iniquity. There is not a crime known to mankind,\u003cbr\u003eapparently, of which they have not been loudly declared to be guilty. My\u003cbr\u003elong experience in the Socialist movement has furnished me with too much\u003cbr\u003eunderstanding of the manner and extent to which working-class movements are\u003cbr\u003eabused and slandered to permit me to accept these stories as gospel truth.\u003cbr\u003eThat experience has forced me to assume that most of the terrible stories\u003cbr\u003etold about the Bolsheviki are either untrue and without any foundation in\u003cbr\u003efact or greatly exaggerated. The \"rumor factories\" in Geneva, Stockholm,\u003cbr\u003eCopenhagen, The Hague, and other European capitals, which were so busy\u003cbr\u003eduring the war fabricating and exploiting for profit stories of massacres,\u003cbr\u003evictories, assassinations, revolutions, peace treaties, and other momentous\u003cbr\u003eevents, which subsequent information proved never to have happened at all,\u003cbr\u003eseem now to have turned their attention to the Bolsheviki.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHowever little of a cynic one may be, it is almost impossible to refrain\u003cbr\u003efrom wondering at the fact that so many writers and journals that in the\u003cbr\u003equite recent past maintained absolute silence when the czar and his minions\u003cbr\u003ewere committing their infamous outrages against the working-people and\u003cbr\u003etheir leaders, and that were never known to protest against the many crimes\u003cbr\u003ecommitted by our own industrial czars against our working-people and their\u003cbr\u003eleaders--that these writers and journals are now so violently denouncing\u003cbr\u003ethe Bolsheviki for alleged inhumanities. When the same journals that\u003cbr\u003edefended or apologized for the brutal lynchings of I.W.W. agitators and the\u003cbr\u003esavage assaults committed upon other peaceful citizens whose only crime was\u003cbr\u003eexercising their lawful and moral right to organize and strike for better\u003cbr\u003ewages, denounce the Bolsheviki for their \"brutality\" and their\u003cbr\u003e\"lawlessness\" and cry for vengeance upon them, honest and sincere men\u003cbr\u003ebecome bitter and scornful.","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47082674422000,"sku":"2940013414761","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013414761_p0.jpg?v=1763592138","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013414761","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}