MEMORANDUM ON CERTAIN ASPECTS OF THE BOLSHEVIST MOVEMENT IN RUSSIA: CHARACTER OF BOLSHEVIST RULE; ECONOMIC RESULTS OF BOLSHEVIST CONTROL; BOLSHEVIST PROGRAM OF WORLD REVOLUTION
Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1919. Pamphlet. Tall Folio booklet (13 in. x 8 1/4 in.). 55 page booklet, heavily tape-reinforced at all edges. Age tanned, and the attached press release shows one or two small edge tears along left side. Deaccessioned ("DISCARD" stamped to front) from Oregon State Library. An offset or spirit-reproduced copy of a typewritten press release is attached to the front, and dated January 3, 1920, with instructions that the information therein is not to be released before Monday, January 5, 1920, and type-signed: "The Division of Foreign Intelligence".
"...The Department of State has released to the press a memorandum on certain aspects of the Bolshevist movement in Russia, which has been prepared in the Russian Division of the Department from original Russian sources, chiefly from the press utterances of the Bosheviks themselves. The document is of special interest because it lays before the American public for the first time an objective study of what the Bolshevists themselves profess to be doing and what they have actuallyl done up to the present..."
"The first section relates to the character of the Bolshevist rule. Reports, speeches and articles by Lenin, Trotsky, Kalinin, and other Bolshevist leaders explain the Bolshevist 'dictatorship of the proletariat'. The Extraordinary Commissions and organized terror are discussed and supplemented by official proclamations from the President of the All-Russian Extraordinary Commission..."
"The second section deals wtih the economic results of the two years of Bolshevist control...Thje third section deals with the Bolshevist program of world revolution, discussing particularly the Communist Inbternational established by the Bolsheviks in Moscow in March 1919..." Good. Item #88579
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