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...trial in which the accused were convicted prisoners, the witnesses convicted prisoners, the spectators convicted prisoners, was held in a prison at Leningrad. The accused, 23 of them, were charged with attempting the murder of a prison mate whom they declared was an agent of the dread Cheka, or revolutionary tribunal...
...happened was not known, but happen it did, apparently some time ago. Into Pecherskaya Monastery at Kiev went agents of the drab Cheka (Russian euphemism for High Court of Justice) ; right up into the belfry went they and discovered $400,000 worth of treasures. Then they came down, arrested 15 high ecclesiastics...
Last week, peasants passing along a certain road beheld 15 cassocked figures doing manual labor under an armed guard supplied by the thoughtful Cheka. The peasants were ashamed, went to their village, killed all the Bolsheviki they could lay hands upon...
...short blue knickers; English Communists from the Clyde, dressed in sombre Sunday-go-to-meeting garments; Communist boys and girls, "sweating in black leather suits with red badges", skinny members of the "Young Pioneers," Bolshevik Boy Scouts, attired in skin-tight red bathing suits; girls in cotton frocks; Cheka battalions, for protection, whose blue helmets added yet another splash of color. And last, but not least, Mohammedans from Turkestan and the Tartar Republic, draped in multicolored flowing robes, and a great Caucasian tribesman in an ample gray cloak over which were slung cartridge bandoleers, a sword-belt holding many silver...
...more than usual interest. The author, a young American who has lived some years in Russia, has caught all the swift horror of those cataclysmic days, has limned his plot against a background that rings true. Rasputin moves evilly through the picture, and Kerensky, Lenin, the dreaded Cheka are delineated with more than a modicum of truth. It is a colorful, kaleidescopic tale, ranging from scenes among the simple, suffering peasants to all the lavish splendor of the Imperial Court ?the whole shot through with the sharp truths of racial contrast and alien heritage...