Bolshevik Propaganda: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Sixty-fifth Congress, Third Session and Thereafter, Pursuant to S. Res. 439 and 469. February 11, 1919, to March 10, 1919 |
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Albert Rhys Williams allies American anarchists army asked banks believe BERNSTEIN Bolshevik government Bolshevism Bolshevist BRESHKOVSKAYA cent church commissar committee constituent assembly constitution Cossacks course Czecho-Slovaks decree DENNIS elected ernment fact factory fighting force form of government German heard HUMES HUNTINGTON HURBAN Jews KEDDIE Kerensky government killed knew KRYSHTOFOVICH labor land Lenine LEONARD lived mean ment Miss BEATTY Miss BRYANT months Moscow never officers organization papers party peace peasants Petrograd political prison propaganda question Red Cross Red Guards REED régime representative revolution revolutionary ROBINS rubles Russia Senator KING Senator NELSON Senator OVERMAN Senator STERLING Senator WOLCOTT sent Siberia SIMONS situation social socialist soldiers soviet government speak statement STEVENSON talk tell terror thing tion told took troops Trotsky trying village Vladivostok Vologda WELSH White Guards WILLIAMS workmen
Popular passages
Page 26 - The evacuation of all Russian territory and such a settlement of all questions affecting Russia as will secure the best and freest coopera-tion of the other nations of the world in obtaining for her an unhampered and unembarrassed opportunity for the independent determination of her own political development and national policy...
Page 165 - The Communists disdain to conceal their views and aims. They openly declare that their ends can be attained only by the forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions. Let the ruling classes tremble at a Communistic revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. WORKING MEN OF ALL COUNTRIES, UNITE!
Page 26 - Russia as will secure the best and freest cooperation of the other nations of the world in obtaining for her an unhampered and unembarrassed opportunity for the independent determination of her own political development and national policy and assure her of a sincere welcome into the society of free nations under institutions of her own choosing; and, more than a welcome, assistance also of every kind that she may need and may herself desire.
Page 621 - Someone once said that there are three kinds of lies: "lies, damned lies, and statistics.
Page 35 - The right to vote and to be elected to the Soviets is enjoyed by the following citizens, irrespective of religion, nationality, domicile, etc., of the Russian Socialist Federated Soviet Republic, of both sexes, who shall have completed their eighteenth year by the day of election: a. All who have acquired the means of living through labor that is productive and useful to society...
Page 695 - Washington, DC The subcommittee met, pursuant to the call of the chairman, at 10.30 o'clock am, in room 226, Senate Office Building, Senator Lee S.
Page 410 - It is the voice of the Russian people. They are prostrate and all but helpless, it would seem, before the grim power of Germany, which has hitherto known no relenting and no pity. Their power, apparently, is shattered. And yet their soul is not subservient. They will not yield either in principle or in action.
Page 410 - Their power, apparently, is shattered. And yet their soul is not subservient. They will not yield either in principle or in action. Their conception of what is right, of what is humane and honorable for them to accept, has been stated with a frankness, a largeness of view, a generosity of spirit, and a universal human sympathy which must challenge the admiration of every friend of mankind ; 465 and they have refused to compound their ideals or desert others that they themselves may be safe.
Page 160 - It waved above our infant might, When all ahead seemed dark as night; It witnessed many a deed and vow; We must not change its colour now.
Page 7 - OF THE COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY, Washington, D. 0. The subcommittee met, pursuant to the call of the chairman, at 10.30 o'clock am, in room No.