item: #1 of 19 id: 10713 author: Bullitt, William C. (William Christian) title: The Bullitt Mission to Russia Testimony before the Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate, of William C. Bullitt date: None words: 40966 flesch: 66 summary: I inclose a note of the sort of conditions upon which I personally think it would be possible for the allied Governments to resume once more normal relations with Soviet Russia. The economic blockade to be raised and trade relations between Soviet Russia and the allied and associated countries to be reestablished under conditions which will ensure that supplies from the allied and associated countries are made available on equal terms to all classes of the Russian people. keywords: american; british; bullitt; chairman; children; col; commission; conference; food; george; government; house; knox; lloyd; matter; new; paris; peace; people; petrograd; present; president; proposal; report; russia; senator; soviet; time; troops cache: 10713.txt plain text: 10713.txt item: #2 of 19 id: 12349 author: Walpole, Hugh title: The Secret City date: None words: 128829 flesch: 89 summary: And so they had--women, boys, old men, little children. They were all closed of course, but along the pavement women and old men had baskets containing sweets and notepaper and red paper tulips offered in memory of the glorious Revolution. keywords: air; alexei; andreievitch; black; bohun; course; dark; day; days; door; end; english; evening; eyes; face; figure; flat; friend; good; grogoff; hand; head; heart; ivan; kind; lawrence; left; life; looking; love; man; markovitch; michailovna; mind; moment; nicholas; night; nina; people; petrograd; place; red; revolution; room; round; russia; semyonov; soul; table; things; thought; time; uncle; vera; voice; war; way; white; woman; world cache: 12349.txt plain text: 12349.txt item: #3 of 19 id: 1326 author: Ransome, Arthur title: The Crisis in Russia date: None words: 36910 flesch: 58 summary: [Nothing could have been much more artificial than the industrial geography of old Russia. There will not be a Russian who will not believe that the artificial incubation of civil war within the frontiers of old Russia was not deliberately undertaken by Western Europe with the object of so far weakening Russia as to make her exploitation easy. keywords: army; committee; communists; conference; conscription; country; europe; food; general; government; labor; moscow; non; party; people; present; revolution; russia; soviet; state; struggle; things; time; town; trades; transport; unions; war; way; work; workers; working; workmen cache: 1326.txt plain text: 1326.txt item: #4 of 19 id: 15921 author: Raisin, Jacob S. (Jacob Salmon) title: The Haskalah Movement in Russia date: None words: 75263 flesch: 63 summary: The Jews of Odessa were, therefore, more cultured than other Russian Jews, not excepting those of Riga. To this day Yiddish has continued an important medium for disseminating culture among Russian Jews, both in the Old World and in the New.[37] The century remarkable among other things for encyclopedia enterprises,--_Chambers' Encyclopedia_ in England, the _Universal Lexicon_ in Germany, and that wonderful and monumental work, the _Encyclopédie_ in France--saw, before its close, a similar attempt, in miniature, in Hebrew and by a Slavonic Maskil. keywords: abraham; alexander; author; ben; berlin; books; cause; century; children; cit; civilization; country; czar; day; days; doctor; education; efforts; enlightenment; footnote; gaon; german; god; good; government; günzburg; haskalah; hayyim; hebrew; history; iii; isaac; israel; jacob; jewish; jews; joseph; judaism; knowledge; language; law; learning; levinsohn; life; lilienthal; literature; little; love; maimon; maskilim; means; mendelssohn; moses; movement; new; nicholas; number; odessa; people; period; petersburg; physician; place; poland; polish; public; rabbi; religion; russian; russo; says; schools; self; slavonic; society; solomon; students; study; talmud; talmudist; time; university; vilna; warsaw; work; world; years cache: 15921.txt plain text: 15921.txt item: #5 of 19 id: 16613 author: Spargo, John title: Bolshevism: The Enemy of Political and Industrial Democracy date: None words: 118862 flesch: 55 summary: It dealt with the vexed problems of marriage and divorce, the land question, co-operative production, and other similar matters, and the solutions it suggested for these problems became widely accepted as the program of revolutionary Russia. This society, which was destined to exert a marked influence upon revolutionary Russia, was the most ambitious revolutionary effort Russia had known. keywords: army; bolshevik government; bolsheviki; bourgeoisie; class; classes; committee; conditions; congress; constituent assembly; council; country; czar; day; delegates; democracy; democratic; dictatorship; duma; elections; executive; fact; force; freedom; general; german; government; industrial; kerensky; labor; land; leaders; lenine; majority; masses; members; movement; nation; new; order; organizations; party; peace; peasants; people; petrograd; policy; population; power; program; proletariat; representatives; revolutionary; revolutionists; right; russia; socialist; soldiers; soviet; state; struggle; time; trotzky; war; workers; working; workmen cache: 16613.txt plain text: 16613.txt item: #6 of 19 id: 17350 author: Russell, Bertrand title: The Practice and Theory of Bolshevism date: None words: 38410 flesch: 57 summary: I had an hour's talk with Lenin, virtually _tête-à-tête_; I met Trotsky, though only in company; I spent a night in the country with Kamenev; and I saw a great deal of other men who, though less known outside Russia, are of considerable importance in the Government. Other men might have been excused for not foreseeing the attitude of Churchill, Clemenceau and Millerand; but Marxians could not be excused, since this attitude was in exact accord with their own formula. keywords: art; bolsheviks; capitalist; class; communist; countries; country; fact; food; good; government; great; industrial; industry; labour; life; man; methods; moscow; peasants; people; power; present; revolution; russia; soviet; state; system; theory; time; view; war; work; world cache: 17350.txt plain text: 17350.txt item: #7 of 19 id: 22523 author: Jahns, Lewis E. title: The History of the American Expedition Fighting the Bolsheviki Campaigning in North Russia 1918-1919 date: None words: 150825 flesch: 69 summary: We were fortunate in having with us a great number of Russian born men, who of course were our interpreters, one of whom, by the way, Private Cwenk, was killed on January 19th, 1919, in the attack of Nijni Gora when he refused to quit his post, though mortally injured, until it was too late for him to make his escape. Now in the spring the warfare was reduced to combat patrol actions with an occasional raid, most of the aggressive being taken by our Allies, the Cossacks, and Russian Archangel troops. keywords: 310th; 339th; action; american; american red; april; archangel; area; army; artillery; attack; battalion; battle; boat; bolo; bolsheozerki; bolshevik; british; building; captain; city; co.; co. pvt; cold; colonel; command; company; company men; comrades; corp; country; course; cross; day; days; defense; detroit; doughboy; duty; dvina; enemy; engineers; expedition; fact; fall; field; fighting; fire; following; food; force; forest; french; general; good; government; great; guards; gun; guns; half; headquarters; home; hospital; illustration; inf; infantry; kodish; land; left; lieut; line; little; machine; major; man; march; medical; men; mich; miles; military; morning; new; night; north; north russia; obozerskaya; officer; official; onega; order; patrol; people; photo; pinega; place; platoon; position; propaganda; pvt; railroad; rear; red; reds; river; russian; sept; sergeant; service; sgt; shenkursk; snow; soldiers; story; supplies; time; toulgas; troops; use; verst; village; war; way; white; winter; woods; work; wounded cache: 22523.txt plain text: 22523.txt item: #8 of 19 id: 26051 author: Lee, H. W. (Henry William) title: Bolshevism: A Curse & Danger to the Workers date: None words: 6860 flesch: 58 summary: What applied to the strike movement of 1911 applies with even greater force to the present strike ebullitions, in which the presence of Russian Bolsheviks is to be noted. But the W.S.C.s then controlling the revolutionary undercurrent in Russia were totally different from the Bolshevist tyranny of to-day, and many of the delegates who formed the W.S.C.s in various parts of Russia after the Revolution have been imprisoned or shot because they opposed the domination of Lenin and Trotzky. keywords: bolshevist; movement; people; proletariat; revolution; russia; socialist; war; workers; | | cache: 26051.txt plain text: 26051.txt item: #9 of 19 id: 31349 author: Bennitt, Ralph title: Satan and the Comrades date: None words: 7127 flesch: 88 summary: Nick spat contemptuously, and a puff of gray smoke spread rapidly over walls, ceiling and floor. Pretty cramped and smelly quarters, Nick told himself, but do or die for good old Hades. keywords: boss; broncov; charon; cletus; comrade; eyes; gold; good; hell; nick; prince; red; volonsky cache: 31349.txt plain text: 31349.txt item: #10 of 19 id: 3485 author: Shaw, Bernard title: Annajanska, the Bolshevik Empress date: None words: 5197 flesch: 91 summary: You have your orders, General Strammfest: save the Revolution. STRAMMFEST. Schneidekind takes a little longer than Strammfest, who comes to the table. STRAMMFEST. keywords: duchess; general; man; revolution; schneidekind; sir; strammfest cache: 3485.txt plain text: 3485.txt item: #11 of 19 id: 36303 author: Trotsky, Leon title: Our Revolution: Essays on Working-Class and International Revolution, 1904-1917 date: None words: 36224 flesch: 56 summary: the proletariat; its aim is to fight for _revolutionary power_. Labor Dictatorship, 94-97; crushing absolutism, abandoning its remnants, 103-104; introducing class politics, 103; introducing class struggle in the village, 104-105; introducing Collectivism and Internationalism, 105; abandoning distinction between minimum and maximum program, 106; and eight hour workday, 106-108; and unemployment, 108-9; and agriculture, 109; and Collectivism, 109-110; and class consciousness, 124-128; incompatible with economic slavery, 132; and agrarian question, 132-136. Liberalism, denying the existence of revolutionary masses, 52-53; defeated by events of January 9th, 54; trying to tame revolutionary people, 55; not reliable as partner in Revolution, 173-174; keywords: army; bourgeois revolution; bourgeoisie; class; country; government; history; labor; liberal; masses; national; new; party; peasants; people; power; proletariat; revolution; revolutionary; russian; socialist; soviet; state; struggle; time; trotzky; war; working; workingmen; world; years cache: 36303.txt plain text: 36303.txt item: #12 of 19 id: 41452 author: Le Queux, William title: Rasputin the Rascal Monk Disclosing the Secret Scandal of the Betrayal of Russia by the Mock-Monk Grichka and the Consequent Ruin of the Romanoffs. With official documents revealed and recorded for the first time. date: None words: 45688 flesch: 68 summary: As he expected, his servant drank a glass, and within half-an-hour he expired in terrible agony, with Rasputin jeering at him in his death-throes. Rasputin the Rascal Monk, by William Le Queux. ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ keywords: berlin; court; day; days; dear; disciples; emperor; empire; empress; father; friend; general; german; god; hand; holy; house; imperial; influence; letter; madame; majesty; man; minister; mock; monk; order; palace; petrograd; protopopoff; rasputin; russia; saint; secret; selo; sister; sturmer; time; tsar; tsaritza; tsarskoe; vyrubova; war; women cache: 41452.txt plain text: 41452.txt item: #13 of 19 id: 43680 author: Denikin, Anton Ivanovich title: The Russian Turmoil; Memoirs: Military, Social, and Political date: None words: 133738 flesch: 60 summary: After all, the old Russian Army, albeit suffering from the deficiencies of the Russian people, had also the people's virtues, and particularly an exceptional power of endurance in facing the horrors of war. The old Russian Army was still strong enough to continue the war and to win victories. keywords: advance; alexeiev; armies; army; army commander; army committees; army corps; attitude; authority; brussilov; chapter; chief; commander; commanding; condition; country; course; day; days; democracy; discipline; duma; duty; end; enemy; general; general kornilov; german; government; great; idea; july; kerensky; kornilov; land; left; life; line; march; masses; means; members; military; minister; moral; national; officers; order; peace; people; petrograd; position; power; press; question; regiment; revolution; revolutionary; right; russian; self; social; soldiers; south; soviet; staff; state; stavka; struggle; supreme; time; troops; units; war; western; work; workmen cache: 43680.txt plain text: 43680.txt item: #14 of 19 id: 50956 author: Shumsky-Solomonov, C. M. title: Russia's Part in the World War date: None words: 12681 flesch: 60 summary: It is just as easy--from an examination of the maps of the first three years of the War, maps which speak only of two principal fronts, the French and the Russian, and no other--to grasp the significance of the gigantic role played in this War by great Russia and the millions of sacrifices she consecrated to the common cause of the Allies. Thus, if the taking of the field by unprepared Russia in the beginning of the War contributed to the defeat of the most dangerous and main plan of the Germans, in August and September, the new sacrifices brought by Russia in October and November on the plains of Galicia, Poland and East Prussia compelled the Germans to desist for more than a year from all attempts to win the War in France. keywords: allies; army; corps; divisions; forces; france; german; ludendorf; men; offensive; russia; war cache: 50956.txt plain text: 50956.txt item: #15 of 19 id: 59304 author: Riley, Frank title: Bright Islands date: None words: 2474 flesch: 81 summary: When the two Geno-Doctors were gone, Miryam took the red capsule from under the base of the bedlamp and slipped it between her dry lips. At the worst of the pain cycle, Miryam bit down on her under lip until the flesh showed as white as her teeth. keywords: doctor; geno; miryam; psi; sar cache: 59304.txt plain text: 59304.txt item: #16 of 19 id: 60315 author: Goldman, Emma title: My Disillusionment in Russia date: None words: 50720 flesch: 69 summary: One must have lived in Russia, close to the everyday affairs of the people; one must have seen and felt their utter disillusionment and despair to appreciate fully the disintegrating effect of the Bolshevik principle and methods--disintegrating all that was once the pride and the glory of revolutionary Russia. Soon we were to behold revolutionary Russia. keywords: america; anarchists; army; bolsheviki; children; city; communist; country; day; days; government; labour; left; life; makhno; man; material; methods; moscow; museum; new; party; peasants; people; petrograd; place; red; revolution; room; russia; régime; social; soviet; tcheka; thought; time; ukraina; visit; women; work; workers; world; years; zorin cache: 60315.txt plain text: 60315.txt item: #17 of 19 id: 6413 author: Trotsky, Leon title: From October to Brest-Litovsk date: None words: 32848 flesch: 56 summary: Such demands frequently came from the so-called Socialistic papers, also Kerensky, more and more openly, went over to the side of the Cadets and the Cadet generals, who had manifested not only their hatred of revolution, but also their bitter enmity toward revolutionary parties in general. Our opponents still would not yield, however, and did not admit that the question of government power was settled. keywords: army; assembly; bourgeoisie; class; coalition; committee; country; democratic; elements; garrison; general; government; kerensky; left; masses; military; negotiations; october; parties; party; peace; petrograd; petrograd soviet; power; revolutionary; revolutionists; russian; soldiers; soviet; time; war cache: 6413.txt plain text: 6413.txt item: #18 of 19 id: 7501 author: Pilniak, Boris title: Tales of the Wilderness date: None words: 50181 flesch: 84 summary: All burst into tears; the general wept as old men weep, the moustached Katerina cried in a sobbing bass. It was night time when Prince Constantine arrived at his brother's little cabin. keywords: agrenev; blue; cold; come; dark; dawn; day; death; earth; eyes; face; fields; forest; general; hand; head; house; ippolytovna; ivanov; know; kseniya; life; love; man; men; mintz; night; polunin; ravine; red; river; room; round; russian; sky; snow; spring; stories; sun; time; trees; village; way; white; wind; windows; wolf; woman; years cache: 7501.txt plain text: 7501.txt item: #19 of 19 id: 8465 author: Kerner, Robert Joseph title: The Russian Revolution; The Jugo-Slav Movement date: None words: 25313 flesch: 59 summary: Before it was over he hoped to drag in prominent members of the Duma (or the Duma itself) and other revolutionary leaders, and make an end of them. This lasted for an hour or more and then came more soldiers announcing that all was well, that the supposed policemen were revolutionary soldiers who had come to take the oath of allegiance. keywords: coalition; council; country; croats; democratic; duma; fact; government; jugo; land; leaders; life; nation; national; new; order; party; peasants; people; revolution; russian; serbia; serbs; slav; slovenes; socialist; soldiers; state; time; tsar; war; workmen cache: 8465.txt plain text: 8465.txt