Word: kronstadters
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Dates: during 1921-1921
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Lenin's reasons are obvious. The trade agreement means but one thing to him, prestige. Kronstadt is in revolution, cities are seething with, unrest, Southern Russia is in arms. The recognition of the Soviets by Great Britain will be a tremendous weapon against this anti-Bolshevist movement. For Lenin will not call it revolution and proclamations will be scattered broadcast declaring the Soviet Russian has compelled capitalistic Great Britain to accept her terms...
...other hand Lloyd George's motives are harder to understand. Most statement would have waited, not only for a final court decision as to the ownership of Russian gold, but until the Kronstadt matter was finally settled. Yet in the critical condition of home affairs a very good reason may be found. As was recently brought out in a discussion in the New York Evening Post, three recent by-elections out of four have gone to Labor or to the Liberals, and one, at Woolwich, was saved for the Coalition by resumed, there can be no possible harm in signing...