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...intentionally vague, Marxist Harold Laski is specific enough. In the best-written piece in this collection, Laski explains labor's tactic so that even the dullest capitalist may read while he runs. Laski reminds British labor of Lenin's reasons for helping Kerensky defend Petrograd against General Kornilov. "It would be wrong," wrote Lenin, as quoted admiringly by Laski, "to think that we have departed from the task of the conquest of power by the proletariat. Not at all. We have approached much nearer to it; only not directly, but obliquely. And at this very minute, we must...
Author Bulygin, no statesman but a soldier, also tried vainly to save the Tsar. After his White leader, General Kornilov, was killed and the decimated army was being reorganized. Bulygin made his way to Moscow in disguise, to organize a rescue for the Tsar. He got to Ekaterinburg, but was recognized as an officer, put in prison and would probably have been shot if he had not escaped. When he rejoined the Whites he was assigned to assist the late N. A. Sokolov, the official investigator of the Tsar's death. The White armies got to Ekaterinburg only nine...
...fact, Gregor and many of his mates, fed up with the war, had listened to much sub versive talk. But Cossacks knew them selves to be the flower of the army, despised the peasants, cared little for the rest of Russia. Torn between the conflicting commands of Kerensky. Kornilov and the Bolsheviks. Gregor did not know what to do with his loyalty. When his regiment broke up he joined the Red Guards, but shooting down men of his own blood went I against his grain. He took the excuse of a furlough for wounds to go home and stay...
...Harbin, Manchuria, a white man was sentenced to death by a Chinese court. It was said to be the first time on record that a white man had been so sentenced. The man was M. Kornilov, famed Russian desperado, with several murders to his credit...
...Kornilov, heavily manacled, was brought into a court last Spring and charged with a civil offense. A friend passed him a revolver with which he intimidated the court and the crowd and made good his escape. Months later he was discovered in a house in Harbin and after a desperate fight, in which his companion and the latter's wife were killed, Kornilov was rearrested...