I affirm that her sincere and matured
testimony cannot be suspected of partizanship or of dogmatic
partiality against the Bolsheviki, who, as you know, tried to
cover their follies and their abominable crimes against the plan
of the Russian people, and against all the other Socialist
parties, under the lying pretext of internationalist ideas, ideas
which they have, in reality, trampled under foot and betrayed.
Yours fraternally,
E. ROUBANOVITCH,
_June 28, 1918._
_Member of the B.S.I._
"The Bolsheviki who promised liberty, equality, peace, etc., have not been
ashamed to follow in the footsteps of Czarism. It is not liberty; it is
tyranny." (Extract from a letter of a young Russian Socialist, an
enthusiast of liberty who died all too soon.)
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_Organization of the Peasants after the Revolution in Soviets of Peasant
Delegates_
A short time after the Revolution of February the Russian peasants grouped
themselves in a National Soviet of Peasant Delegates at the First Congress
of the Peasants of All-Russia, which took place at Petrograd. The Executive
Committee of this Soviet was elected. It was composed of well-known leaders
of the Revolutionary Socialist party and of peasant delegates sent from the
country.
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