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Title: Through the Russian Revolution
Year: 1921 (1920s)
Authors: Williams, Albert Rhys, 1883-1962
Subjects: Communism Communisme
Publisher: New York, Boni and Liveright
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throughrevolutionary means. APPENDIX 299 (b) The complete break with the barbarous policy of capitalist civilization, which estabUshes thepower of the exploiters in a few select nations atthe cost of the enslavement of hundreds of mil-lions of the toiling masses in Asia, in the Colo-nies and in all small countries. (c) The recognition of the complete independence of Finland, the withdrawal of the Russian armiesfrom Persia, and the right of self-determinationfor Armenia. (d) The annulling of the loans which were concluded by the Government of the Tsar, the foreignbanks and the Russian bourgeoisie, as the firstblow against international bank and finance-capital.IV. The Great Convention believes that the time is at hand forthe decisive struggle with the exploiters, for whom there is nowno place in the organs of government. Power must be now whollyand exclusively in the hands of the toiling masses and of theirrepresentative organs—the Soviets of Workmens, Soldiers andPeasants Deputies.
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Dr. Wm. Wovschin collection The President of the Soviet Republic is Kalinin—not Lenin. Kalinin is hereseated in front of a village hut conferring with the peasants. (Sec next page). Moscow, Oct. 2ah, 1921—The humblest peasant may come to askthe help or advice of Kalinin, the President of the Soviet Republicwith none to bar his way. Around him come pressing- two or three score of men dressed inrough untanned sheepskin or dun-colored cloth, that hall-mark of theRussian villagers. Some are carrying a sack of food or a bed-roll,token of the long journey they made to lay their case before Kalinin. He greets his visitors simply and talks to one after another in thesame peasant diale-ct as theirs. It is hard to realize that here before ones eyes is the secret of theno small Bolshevist hold on the Russian people. More than any ofhis colleagues, more even than Lenin, Kalinin knows what the peas-ants think, what they love or hate and what they want. However impossible it is for him to appea

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