The Case of Russian Labor Against Bolshevism: Facts and Documents (1919)

Introduction The Russian situation at this moment may be summed up as follows: While the bolsheviki are still able to control, through armed force, a part of Central Russia, the people of Russia, led by the greatest Russian liberal and revolutionary leaders, are waging an open war against the bolshevism usurpers.

When we speak about the people of Russia we have in mind, as far as social classes are concerned, not only the Russian middle class but also, and especially, the Russian peasantry and workingmen who are constantly rising against the Bolshevist tyranny.

As far as the Russian political parties are concerned, not only the Liberals, the Constitutional-Democratic Party, but also the People's Socialists, the Social-Democrats Mensheviki, and the Party of Socialists-R evolutionists are engaged in open war with the Bolshevist usurpers and will not cease this war until political liberties and democratic institutions are re-established in the country.

The people of Russia, guided by such leaders as Catherine Breshkovsky and Nicholas Tchaikovsky, will not cease their efforts to break the new tyranny and to bring about, through an ll-Russian Constituent Assembly, the rule of democratic Russia.

As Catherine Breshkovsky The Grandmother of the Russian Revolution, said in her wonderful Message to the American People, The demand for a Constituent Assembly was one of the main aspirations of the Russian Revolution. It was on the eve of its realization when the Bolshevist revolt, in November 1917, tore out of the hands of the people the beautiful possibility to make laws for themselves, to trace the path for their future, to construct a new life in accordance with the interests of the masses, to strengthen peace and ensure the common welfare.

The Constituent Assembly, which convened in Petrograd in January 1918, was elected by the entire Russian people on the b
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Author: Russian Information Bureau in the United, Russian Information Bureau in the U.S.
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
Published: 02/21/2008
Pages: 32
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.28lbs
Size: 11.00h x 8.50w x 0.08d
ISBN: 9780548849347

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