This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1918 edition. Excerpt: ... "THE DARK PEOPLE CHAPTER I IN Petrograd it was hard to say just where was the real government. It had so many different parts, and many of these were outside the rambling government buildings. In order to understand them all, one point first must be made clear--that the governing powers in Russia were ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1918 edition. Excerpt: ... "THE DARK PEOPLE CHAPTER I IN Petrograd it was hard to say just where was the real government. It had so many different parts, and many of these were outside the rambling government buildings. In order to understand them all, one point first must be made clear--that the governing powers in Russia were striving to control and direct both a war and a revolution, and the needs of the two were directly opposed. From the one side, the revolution clamored for freedom from discipline and from heavy taxes, freedom from duties of every kind, freedom of speech and assembly, freedom for every faction to further its own favourite plan for the building of the new nation. And meanwhile, from the other side, the war kept pressing, pressing in, demanding disciplined armies, Liberty Loans, and a united people--united by force if need be and through the suppression for a time of many new found liberties. The war meant German armies without and a host of German spies within. I felt their presence everywhere, in the government itself and within all groups and parties, giving secret encouragement to i the forces of the Old Regime, and among the extreme revolutionist groups ceaselessly working day and night to increase the chaos wherever they could and bring down the whole edifice with a crash. In July they nearly succeeded. There was a government crisis then, for the nonsocialist ministers were threatening to resign. The great mass of the socialists, who supported Kerensky, were against these resignations, for they knew that a coalition ministry was the only way to keep the nation united; and they felt the time had come for the revolution to " cash in " on what it had already won. They wanted a "practical government." But the Bolsheviki and the Maximalists, ...
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Good+ No Dust Jacket. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. 226+pp. Original blue cloth covers w/ gilt title on front cover. Binding lightly soiled and rubbed. Front hinge just starting. Illust. w/ b/w plates.
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Fair. 226, small tears to several pages, ink notation and pencil erasure on front endpaper. Poole won the Pulitzer Prize in the year this book was published for the novel "His Family. " He had been in Russia at the time of the October Revolution of 1917, and was a sympathetic socialist, having helped Upton Sinclair gather material for "The Jungle" earlier.
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Very good. 8vo, hardcover. No dj, black cloth. Vg condition. Previous owner's stamp on title page. Cover corners lightly bumped; contents clean, no marking or writing. Binding square and tight. 226 pp., sev. illus.
