Bolshevism: An International Danger (Routledge Revivals)
Paul Miliukov
Language: English
Pages: 149
ISBN: 1333306245
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
First published in 1920, Paul Miliukov’s book concerns the international nature of Bolshevism, both in terms of its ideologically internationalist doctrine of World Revolution and in terms of the attempts to spread Bolshevism in the period immediately preceding and following the First World War and the Russian revolution of October 1917. This reissue is a must for anyone interested in the rise of Bolshevism as an international force.
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Soviet’s extremism that on their return to France they advocated a policy of the largest concessions. Arthur Henderson, after having agreed with his colleagues in a common refusal to participate in a full conference, finally consented to a consultative conference. Albert Thomas, who was particularly responsible for the first Coalition compromise, was also especially eager to help the Russian Socialistic Government to the anticipated military success. However, he consented to accept the Conference
made it the aim and purpose of our diplomacy,” Mr. Trotsky says in his book, not to win a good peace for Russia—which was impossible—but to “enlighten the popular masses, to open their eyes as to the nature of the policy of their respective Governments, and to fuse them in one common struggle against, and hatred of, the bourgeois-capitalist regime.” “In so far as we could not pledge ourselves to change the balance and correlation of the world’s powers in a very short period of time, we openly and
knew French.” “There was a make-believe side to the whole affair,” Mr. Ransome ironically remarked,” in which the English Left Socialists were represented by Finberg and the Americans by Reinstein, neither of whom had, or was likely to have, any means of communicating with their constituents.” Of course, Fritz Platten cut a really “vital figure” at the Conference. One must bear in mind that Platten, together with Grimm, had been the most active in plotting the GermanBolshevik conspiracy; that as
ideas and come to what is my proper subject in this chapter: to state the narrower circle of direct relations between Bolshevist Russia and Spartacist Germany on the one hand and revolutionary groups of Great Britain on the other. I begin with Great Britain, not only because, living in this country, I was able to follow more closely the developments, but also, as I believe, because, owing to greater freedom (“unbridled licence” is Mr. Winston Churchill’s expression in the House of Commons) of
specially chosen territories where enormous quantities of publications were thrown in close connection with changing strategical designs of Bolsheviks. To-day it is Finland, to-morrow Ukraine, then Ireland, America, the Near or the Far East, Afghanistan, India, China. One might read the story Part III: Bolshevism Out for a World Revolution (1918) 107 of universal schemes of Bolshevism while following up this changing trend of their propagandist currents. Let us begin our short review by the
