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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Introduced by Professor Leo Wiener and speaking before a large audience in the Living Room of the Union last night, Count Ilya Tolstoy described vividly the present conditions in Russia which have arisen from the Bolshevist regime and gave what he thought would have been his father's answer to the problems confronting Russia had he been alive today...
...Count Tolstoy opened his speech by explaining how the present chaos in Russia was the result of many years of struggling for liberty, and mentioned the revolutions of 1825, 1861, 1905, 1907, and finally that of 1917. As the result of these outbursts the peasantry were liberated and were given land and freedom. "Yet", said Count Tolstoy, "even after a hundred years of struggle for liberty the peasants have gained nothing, for they are now under the dictation of the Bolsheviki, which is a slavery much worse than the slavery of the old Czars...
...nine per cent Thieves and robbers and one per cent republicans. This interesting opinion has been held by a great many people who know very little about the subject of Bolshevism. It is held by one man, at least, who ought to know much about it--and he is Count Ilya Tolstoy who is speaking at the Union tonight. He has written many articles for American periodicals and in them he pictures the woes that Russia has had to put up with, conditions which he has observed first hand, since war and Sovietism have been visited upon her. Most normal...
...Count Tolstoy is at present in America on a lecture tour explaining the conditions in Russia and securing aid for the education of Russian students...
...Count Tolstoy, who is the third son of Count Leo Tolstoy, was born in 1866, and lived at Yasnaya Polyana until 1881 when the family moved to Moscow. During the famines of 1890, 1891, and 1898 he helped his father in relief work, and since that time has been very active in philanthropic work in Russia, especially during the revolution...