Identifier: throughrussianre00will (find matches)
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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ng humanity and beclouding the great daysof the birth of Russian freedom. A storm of cheers, and the Congress took up theorder of the day—the Ukraine, Education, War-Widows and Orphans, Provisioning the Front, Re-pairing the Railways, etc. This should have beenthe business of the Provisional Government. Butthat Government was flimsy and incompetent. Itsministers were orating, wrangling, scheming againstone another and entertaining diplomats. But some-body must do the hard work. By default it wasalready passing into the hands of these Soviets ofthe people. This First Congress of Soviets was domi- Enter the nated by the intelligentsia—doctors, en- Bolsheviks. gineers, journalists. They belonged to political parties known as Menshevik and Socialist-Revolutionary. At the extreme left sat 107 delegates of a decided proletarian cast—plain soldiers and workingmen. They were aggressive, united and spoke with great earnestness. They were often laughed and hooted down—always voted down.
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