Chapter I: Front Matter

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“BARBAROUS SOVIET RUSSIA”

MR. AVERAGE MAN’S IMPRESSION OF THE MEANING OF CERTAIN RUSSIAN WORDS
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_Copr. Life Pub. Co._

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“Barbarous Soviet Russia”

BY
ISAAC McBRIDE

NEW YORK
THOMAS SELTZER
1920

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Copyright, 1920,
By Thomas Seltzer, Inc.

Printed in the United States of America
All Rights Reserved

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TO

NINA LANE McBRIDE

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Acknowledgment is hereby made to the “Christian
Science Monitor,” “Universal Service” (Hearst),
and “Asia Magazine” for courtesies extended, in
using some of the material that appeared in those
publications.

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CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

Preface 9

I. Entering Red Land 13

II. With the Red Soldiers 21

III. On to Moscow 41

IV. Moscow 51

V. Interview With Lenin 64

VI. Who Is Lenin? 72

VII. Petrograd 87

VIII. Bolshevik Leaders—Brief Sketches 102

IX. Women and Children 112

X. Government Industry and Agriculture 120

XI. Propaganda 138

XII. Coming Out of Soviet Russia 144

Appendix 157

I. Code of Labor Laws 159

II. Resolutions Adopted at the Conference of the
Second All-Russian Congress of Trades Unions 191

III. Financial Policy and Results of the
Activities of the People’s Commissariat of
Finance 241

IV. REPORTS: (_a_) Metal Industry; (_b_)
Development of Rural Industries; (_c_)
Nationalization of Agriculture 255

ILLUSTRATIONS

Mr. Average Man’s Impression of the Meaning of _Frontispiece_
Certain Russian Words

FACING
PAGE

Red Army’s Infantry Division 22

Trotzky, Commissar of War and Marine 30

Lenin and Mrs. Lenin, Moscow, 1919 38

Lenin in the courtyard of the Kremlin, Moscow, 46
Summer of 1919

Lenin at his desk in the Kremlin, 1919 50

Lenin in Switzerland, March, 1919 62

Exterior and Interior of Lenin’s Home in Zurich 70

Gorky and Zinovieff 78

Zinovieff, President of the Petrograd Soviet 86

Chicherin, Commissar of Foreign Affairs 94

Litvinoff, Assistant Commissar of Foreign Affairs 102

Children of the Soviet School at Dietskoe Selo 110

Mrs. Lenin visiting a Soviet School 118

Soviet Propaganda Train 126

“Red Terror” 142