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SIGNIFICANCE OF THE
RUSSIAN MAXIMALIST
“COUP” EXPLAINED
FAILURE AF ALLIES TO RESTATE WAR AIMS LEADS TO RUS
SIAN’S TAKING RECENT STEPS, SAYS WRITER IN NOV.
17TH, 1017 INSSUE OF THE NEW YORK TRIBUNE
Under the heading of "Keren
sky’s Kali Followed Allies’ Fail
ure to Restate Aims” the New
York Tribuno some time ago pub
lished an article by Isaac Don Le
vine, which shed considerable light
upon the latest events in Russia.
Mr. Levine, in a brief historical re
view of Russian developments, at
tributes the action of the Maximal
ists, or Bolshoviki, forces in over
throwing Kerensky and the Pro
visional Government to failure of
the Allies to respect the wishes of
the new Russian, democracy, which
requested a re-state*aent of war
aims. Following ttie disapointment
of hopes in this respect, the Petro
grad Council of Workman’s and
Soldiers’ Dcputi s took matters di
rectly into their own hands.
Isaac Don n,evine, the Tribune
states, is himself an expatriated
Kutsijan revolutionist. His inter
pretation of events is greatly illu
minating, and helps to place Rus
sion affairs in a more intelligible
perspective. His article follows:
"The great battle between mode
ration and extremism in the New
Russia is at an end. Since the birth
of free Russia the elements of
practical statesmanship, under the
generalship of Kerensky, fought
with heroism unexampled to re
strain the Revolution. But the
Russian Revolution would not stay
restrained. And now after a
seven, mon:h3 battle, emotionalism
and radicalism led by Lenin and
Trotsky are triumphant over Ker
ensky.
World Misinformed.
The true stor\ of '.he gp.at bat
tle has never yet been told, For
eign correspondents informed the
world of anarchy in Russia while
there was no anarchy. They warn
ed tie world against Bolsheviki
outrages and excesses, but lie Bol
shevik! have now taken over i’etro
grrd apparently with little blood
shtd. They repeated al .ri nug re
ports of chaos in Russia. But at
the same lime this “chaotic” Rus
sia m; iniaiicd an army of 16 000,
000 soldiers at the fr nt and in
the rear. These millions were fed,
clot heel, supplied with munitions,
taught literacy in thousands of im
provised schools and instilled with
a simple, out intelligent grasp of
the international situation.
Everything that happened in
Russia, inclueiing the several cabi
net crisis and the refusal of some
iroeps to take the often:ivc, were
the results of the greet bade
waged between the two forces of
the New Rus:,?a, typified by Kerou
sky and Lenin. But the correspond
ents st Poirogr d had not tie vi
suon to acquaint their readers with
the nature cf this fight. No coun
try lias ever sudi.red mere misre
presentation then Russia, and ap
pa ontly for :.o valid reason. The
Russian viewpoint lias not a chance
lor expression in any high triubu
;ta! of public opinion.
This is t bo the account cf what
harpened in Russia, from the Rus
sian point cf view, and in the tight
■ f Rio combat that has just tvmin
a./Hl. It is no*, expression of opi
nion, but an historical review cf
i.ctu-1 facts and events.
Mlsgauge Spirit of New Russia.
The Russian revolution produced
n New Ilu ;sia. When thin New ltus
sia first, appo-red in the world it
vva3 imbj.d with the deepest hat
red fir the f-.Uen Czavism. It con
tidcrcd everything thrt was allio,!
or identified with. Czarir.m obnox
ious or at least suspicious. It soon
discovered itself in the company of
the Czar’s allies, Britain, France,
and Italy, The New Russia, as
r-pro-.enied by the Petrograd Coun
cil of Workmen and Soldiers,
m-de it clear so an after its riso
that it was a totally new partner
in the Allied camp. It looked
upon the Allies as strange bed
fellows, b'cause of their connec
tion with the old imperialistic Rus
sia.
The Allies made their initial
blinder when they failed to recog
nize tho New Russia as really n;w.
They considered it only a conti
nuation of tie old. They ? fused
to see tho viewpoint of the Russia:’,
revolutionary democracy. This de
mocracy said to tho Allies:
“I find myself ir. your company.
1 cm willi*.g to co-operate with you
In a common effort to democratize
Germany. Ti is is my aim 1*. the
wr.r and nothing more. What is
yours? Arc you willing to repu
diate openly all alms at annexa
tions and punitive indemnities? If
fo. le* its moot and enter into a
covenant. If r.ot, say so.”
Allies Ignore Wishes of New
Democracy.
Tho Russian democracy did not
consider itself bound by the Czar’s
covenants an*’, tract!os. New this
may be all wrong, it m ty be un
ethical, it may be outrageous. But
It was and is a fact, a reality. The
Allies failed to see this fact arid
deal with it a? such. New Rus
sl i -’•anted to negotiate a new
agreement with the Allion for a
common war against the Hohen
zclierns. The Allies would not
even acknowledge the authority of
the Now Russian’s organ, the Coun
I cil of Workmen and Soldiers.
The Aiiies failed to see at first
that the Provisional Government,
without the bucking of the soldiers
and work mu., amounted lo no
thing. They considered the first
ministry of Lvoft and Milukoff, the
: spokesmen of Russia,
j When the revolutionary demo
cracy perceived this it arrived at
the conclusion that the Russian
Government, not the Allies, was to
blame for tho lack of understand
ing in Franco and Britain of Rus
sia’s position. They therefor pro
ceeded .o re'onstruct the Govern
nten;.
This happened six weeks after
tho revolution, e:\rly in May. Paul
Milukoff was forced out of th > post
of Minister for Foreign Affairs.
When this occurred the group of
foreign corrospor. ienfs in Petro
grad, who failed to grasp the mean
ins of the evert,, flashed to the
w rid the first alarming news of
Ulscrdor i” the Russian capital.
What happened really was that
tho revolutionary democracy took
Its first step toward carrying
tho mandate of the revolution.
This dovido.l Russia into two
campa. A small section of raode
ratep wanted Russia to continue
the war in co-operation with the
Allies without any new agree
ment. Tho Russian manses, de
sirous of peace, wanti d the Allies
to help I hem to cause a revolution
in Germany.
Key To Russia's/Strategy.
a
Hero to the key of the whole Rus
sian situation. The Russian peo
ple are firmly, convinced that a
German revolution impossible. You
cannot understand What hns hap
pened without reckoning with this
cardinal fact. The Russians be
lieve that if the Airies repudiated
all aims at annexc.ti .'ns and puni
tive indemnities there would be a
Get man revolution. Moreover,
they add that they will fight like
lions if the German* Veoplo fail to
revolt.
The mandate rf the Russian re
voultion is the bringing of peace
through a Gernjr.r. revolution. The
revolutionary democracy of Russia
empowered the Council of Work
men and Soldiers to carry out this
mandate. The council forced the
reconstruction of the Government
for the purpose of having the Al
lies rcstato their war,, aims. Ker
ensky went into tie government to
represent the council and eventu
ally becamo the leader of the gov
ernment in order to enact tho
wishes of the councii.
(To be continued tomorrow.)
UNCLE SAM AND
BROTHER JONATHAN.
BROTHER JONATHAN— Don’t
you think the Socialist Labor Party
is somewhat intolerant?
UNCLE SAM—No; why?
B. J.—I'll tell you. It calls the
labor leaders fakirs because, they
won't join the S. L. P.
U. S.—Where did you got that
fnrm?
B. J.—That i3 what the labor
lerders say.
U. S.—But their saying so does
not make it so.
B. J.—But docs not the S. L. P.
call them fakirs?
U. S.^-Whcw? These profession
als of the jut e and simple stripe?
B. J.—Yes.
U. S.—It docs.
B. J.—Well, there you have it.
They are called fakirs becatise they
won’t join the party.
U. S.—Not at all; that is not the;
I
reason. There ia a mighty good
reason to call them fakirs; their
not joining the S. L. P. would be
no reason.
B. J.—And what is the reason?
U. S.—There aro workingmen
wl-.o actually still honestly indulge
the superstition that the union and
the strike and boycott are enough
for all practical purposes; many a
sincoro worker holds thin view;
the blows he has received are not
yet hard enough, ar.d you know
how difficult it is to rid oneself of
a superstition if it has once taken
hold.
B. J.—Yes, indeed, I do.
U. S.—Such workers and their
leaders are looked upoz rather
with pity than contempt by the
Industrial Unionists or Socialists;
these never call them fakirs, but
visionaries and illusionists.
B. J.—Well, then, whom do the
Industrial Unionists call fakirs?
U. S.—but there aro a good
many others who have long since
iropped the pure and simple super
stition; who know that the indus
trial struggle or strikes and boy
cotts alone aro not sufficient and
that the workers must cart their
ballots against both capitalist can
didates, but whe nevertheless fight
the S. L. P. with furious rage.
B. J.—Are those Ihe ones the So
cialists call fakirs?
U. S.—Yes, but not simply be
cause they fight the S. L. P.
B. J.—For what other reason?
U. S.—Peoplo may entertain an
honest conviction that, although a
certain labor party has a correct
platform, still it ia constituted in a
manner that they object to and is
led by people whom they sincerely
mistrust.
B. J.—No, indeed! So long as
they are honest in such convictions
they are no fakirs. But the test
of their honesty is th it they set up
'he.r own labor party, organized
in such a way as they may choose,
and led by such men as they may
trust. That is the test. The work
ers who would do that are r.o
fakirs; but those aro fakirs who,
while calling themselves Socialists,
and while objecting to the S. L. P.
nevertheless deliberately .abstain
from setting up their own party.
Such fellows are all-round fakirs;
they prove that they are disl’.oncst
in their opposition to the S. L.- P.,
that they are on the make even if
they have to play ir.to the hands
of the capitalists by trading on
their class.
B. J.—Such peoplo surely are
fakirs.
U. S.—And such are the “labor
lenders” whom t»-e Industrial
Unionists and Socialists hold up
with a pitchfork to the well me
rited execration of the working
class.
—Wteekly People.
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