| | Contemporary reviews of Arthur Ransome's Six Weeks in Russia in 1919 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20) |
 | | The desire of the Bolsheviks for peace is written all over the book, and the immense concessions that they offered the Allies in the hope of buying it are fully described — the recognition of the debts of the old regime, concessions to Entente subjects of minerals, timber, &c., and the "discussion of annexations," i. |
 | | His instinct for property in land has survived these years of revolution, and while the Bolsheviks seem to have succeeded in the end in organizing many of their socialized functions, they have had to tolerate in the country a system which differs only in certain legal fictions from peasant-ownership. |
 | | One thing which these pages make clear is that the official picture of Russia and of the Bolshevik Government which is periodically drawn in blood and thunder for the benefit of the British elector is a monstrous perversion. |
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