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CHAPTER I.—THE FLIGHT FROM OMSK

By train to Novo-Nikolaevsk—Congested railway lines—Questions of
precedence—Train-jumping—“Bad joss”—A broken coupling—Successful
bribery 1-11

CHAPTER II.—WE TAKE TO SLEIGHS

At Bolotnaya—We board ammunition-sleighs—Stripping the
dead—Hospital ghouls—Drinking motor spirit—Sufferings and
patience of the peasants—I nearly get lost—Colonel Ivantsev—I
reach Taiga 12-20

CHAPTER III.—CAPTURED

To Krasnoyarsk by train—The mysterious Three—The Whites
disarmed—Polite captors—We are disarmed by the Reds—Red
fanaticism—“We never kill prisoners”—Drunk with words—A
confused situation—Russian Christmas Eve, January 6, 1920 21-26

CHAPTER IV.—SOME HORRORS OF THE RETREAT

Fear of the Reds—And of Siberia—Russian
barbarity—Typhus-hospitals at Novo-Nikolaevsk—And at
Taiga—Mortality on the Retreat—Collapse of morality—Families
scattered—Fate of young girls 27-40

CHAPTER V.—FACE TO FACE WITH BOLSHEVISM

We are ignored—Impracticable schemes for escape—Krasnoyarsk—A
topsy-turvy world—Bolshevik ignorance of England—An interview
with the Red Governor—Class-warfare—We are kept as hostages 41-46

CHAPTER VI.—WE LEAVE OUR TRAIN

Impersonality of Bolshevik government—Our Omsk money becomes
valueless—We are helped by Mr. Yates—Captain Horrocks—Housing
difficulties—Militarist methods—Crowded quarters—Helpless
refugees—Compulsory registration—My growing horror of
Bolshevism—Captain Martel—English indiscretion—“The French
Uncle” 47-55

CHAPTER VII.—I BECOME A CIVILIAN

Difficulties with the Commissars—“You can work or fight for the
Communists”—Threatened with the Concentration Camp—I register
as a journalist—We sell British equipment—Captain Horrocks
gets us all registered—I acquire a dual personality—We give
lessons—An accomplished sergeant—New men, new manners—“No
Hand-shaking”—Old-fashioned Russian generosity—Bolshevik
leaders and manual labour 56-63

CHAPTER VIII.—IN RED KRASNOYARSK

Red rejoicings—Abandoned horses—Statistics—Reds in British
uniform—Mistakes that resulted—B.R.C. supplies—An unsatisfactory
barter 64-69

CHAPTER IX.—I ESCAPE

I leave my comrades—A murdered White officer—Agents with false
passports—My credentials—My exertions on behalf of my comrades—I
get permission to go to Ekaterinburg—A hurried start—49° below
zero 70-75

CHAPTER X.—THE JOURNEY TO EKATERINBURG

Russian railway engineers—Sverdlov—Dovgolevsky—Educated
Bolsheviks’ great interest in intellectual and economic
problems—Life and work on the train—Insatiable workers—Technical
experts desire to leave Russia—Their unsatisfactory status—Car
No. 1167—Repair of bridges—Abandoned White rolling-stock—Safety
of Colonel Johnston—Rise in prices at Novo-Nikolaevsk—Von
Blücher—Terror at Omsk—The “Cheka”—Our train is searched 76-87

CHAPTER XI.—TROTSKY IN EKATERINBURG

The Army of Labour—The _Red Tocsin_—The Soviet Government
composed of journalists—Trotsky—His appetite for work—Shovelling
snow—He deals with the D.M.S.—Propaganda by poster—“Packed”
public meetings—“The Fight against Economic Ruin”—Trotsky’s
contempt for democracy—His train—His Jewish adaptability—His
oratory—Failure of the Army of Labour—Bureaucracy—Place-hunters 88-107

CHAPTER XII.—IN A “PROPAGANDA HALL”

Cartoons and posters—Crowd-psychology—“Workers of the world,
unite!”—Multiplication of Government institutions—A Bolshevik
guide—Communism in action—Private enterprise killed—A meeting
of the Provincial Soviet—Soviet eating-houses—Marketing—Passive
resistance of the peasants 108-123

CHAPTER XIII.—THE MURDER OF THE TSAR

The Ippatievsky Dom at Ekaterinburg—Metvietev—Yurovsky—Lettish
Guards—July 16, 1918—Goloshokin—Yurovsky wakes the Imperial
Family—They go down to the cellar—A pathetic procession—Faithful
servants—Yurovsky reads the order for the executions—He shoots
the Tsar—The massacre—The Grand Duchess Tatiana—The bodies thrown
on to motor-lorries—Yurovsky’s anxiety to destroy all traces
of his crime—He is shunned by the Bolsheviks—And repulsed by
Lenin—Interview with Yurovsky, March 18, 1920 124-152

CHAPTER XIV.—THE BURIAL OF THE TSAR

Kopchiki Wood—Captain Pometkovsky—Remains discovered—Crown
jewels—Use of sulphuric acid—The cremation—Return of the
lorries to Ekaterinburg—Prokofy’s tale—Metvietev has the
cellar at Ippatievsky Dom cleaned—Letters of the Tsarina—The
charwomen—False reports circulated—Evidence of Kouzma
Letemin—And of Anatoly Yakimov—Treatment and behaviour
of the Imperial Family at Ekaterinburg—Their piety—Their
courtesy—Pankratov’s account of the Imperial Family and
their suite 153-185

CHAPTER XV.—THE CITY OF DREADFUL HUNGER

By train to Moscow—A fellow-traveller—Is he Metvietev?—Derelict
rolling-stock—Civilization relapses into barbarism—A changed
city—Disillusionment of my fellow-travellers—Desolation and
famine—Contrast with pre-war conditions—Bolshevism kills
private initiative—Resulting demoralization 186-197

CHAPTER XVI.—THE MYSTERIES OF MOSCOW

Government without law—Chicherin’s assistants—Lost folk—The
last first and the first last—Clumsy White conspirators—Lenin
tolerates anarchism—“The Union of Five Oppressed”—“Russian
Friends of American Freedom”—Many Bolsheviks desire to leave
Russia—And to evangelize the British workman—Jewish Communists’
missionary zeal—Dr. Karlin imprisoned 198-205

CHAPTER XVII.—MY LIFE IN MOSCOW

In a railway carriage—Impassable streets—Food-control—Catholic
churches and priests—Bolshevik intellectuals—Their theories
of education—Libraries nationalized—Christian literature
banned—Bolshevik literature—The destruction of pre-revolutionary
records and newspapers not an unmixed evil—Classic
drama—Lunacharsky—educating the public taste 206-219

CHAPTER XVIII.—THE RED TSAR AND HIS GUESTS

I am moved to a Soviet “guest-house”—The underworld
of the Third International—Intrigues with Korea and
Japan—Captain Sadul—Professor Barrakatula—Pan-Mahommedan
Congress, April, 1920—Intrigues in India, Central Asia,
and Turkey—Lenin—His appearance—His frugality—Germans in
Moscow—Concession-hunters—Financiers—Diplomats—A Bolshevik
“atmosphere” 220-232

CHAPTER XIX.—THE BOLSHEVIK F.O. AND THE FOREIGN PRESS

Foreign journalists enter Russia by underground
methods—Unscrupulous editors—Correspondents used as instruments
of Bolshevik propaganda—Their false position—The guests of the
Soviet—No free intercourse allowed them—They are shepherded
by skilfully selected interpreters—Independent and honest
journalism impossible—Litvinov—The People’s Commissariat of
Foreign Affairs—Rosenberg and Feinberger—The censorship—Its
intolerance—Chicherin—Burke quoted—Feeling of impermanence—A
tea-party 233-251

CHAPTER XX.—THE BOLSHEVIK NEWS AGENCY

I get into the Kremlin—The Rosta—An exhibition—Nationalization
of the Press—A poetic schoolmaster—“Talent
charts”—Kerzhentsev—Communist propaganda in the
provinces—Manufacturing public opinion—The wireless
service—Propaganda overreaches itself 252-261

CHAPTER XXI.—AN INTERVIEW WITH THE PATRIARCH

Patriarch Tikhon—His views on Church and State—Strangulation
of the Church by State control of communications—future of
religion in Russia—the Catholic Church—Polish clergy—Communist
schools—The Jews—The Freemasons 262-268

CHAPTER XXII.—IN THE DUNGEONS OF THE EXTRAORDINARY COMMISSION

I am arrested—And searched—The offices of the Vecheka—The police
station—Youthful policemen—I am searched again—The Governor of
the jail—Solitary confinement—My cell—Female prisoners—Mental
effects of isolation—“Who had given me away?”—Consolations—Bad
diet—Xenofontov and Mogilevsky—I am interrogated—And released 269-285

CHAPTER XXIII.—LENINISM: THE DESIGN OF THE BOLSHEVIKS

Theory of Bolshevism—The Proletariat and the
Parasites—Anti-nationalism of the Bolsheviks—But they
foment nationalist movements abroad—Their political
dishonesty—Lenin—His fanaticism—Landau-Aldanov quoted—Lenin
the prophet of “internationalism”—Radek’s “Bolshevik
Party”—The peace with Esthonia—Bolshevik accomplices and
sympathizers abroad—“The Government of the Poor and of the
Oppressed”—Lunacharsky—Bolshevik emblems—Historical parallels
afforded by the Reformation and the French Revolution—The
spread of communistic and revolutionary ideas abroad is
necessary for the continued existence of Bolshevism in
Russia—Relations of the Commissariat of Foreign Affairs with the
Third International—Commissar Feinberg—Forging passports and
foreign paper money—Historical and political comparisons with
Japan—Bolshevik misgivings—“Illusions, myths, and ghosts” 286-301

CHAPTER XXIV.—ABOARD THE GOOD SHIP “DONGOLA”

Failure of Bolshevism to suppress militarism and
capitalism—Foreign capitalists—Corruption and
profiteering—Bureaucracy—The Bolshevik oligarchy—Probable
reaction—I leave Russia under the Litvinov-O’Grady
agreement—I decline Bolshevik offers of employment as a
journalist—Marriage-bells—Helsingfors Harbour 302-310