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Less than five years after the revolution, "tens of thousands of old bureaucrats" were back to work for the government, said Pipes, the Frank B. Baird Professor of History. In addition by 1921, about 85 percent of the armed forces were officers commissioned in the Tzarist era, he said...
...makes its myth come momentarily true in the abstract as if it were an opera and not a supposed documentation of an historical event. The Turks are all red-fezzed ogres, the common soldier and the people's general win the war for their oppressed brethren, and the Tzarist general staff is composed of dunderheads and tools of women. Bullets cannot touch the heroic leader, and his heroic troops stem the Turkish hordes by hurling rocks and corpses. A Bulgarian captive breaks away from his captors and, standing silhouetted against the night sky, cries "We will gain our freedom...
Pipes points to the importation of liberalism, socialism, nationalism, and utilitarianism from the West as intellectual ammunition for the Russian Populist movement that eventually shook the Tzarist regime. Perhaps the USSR's current eagerness to maintain control over buffer states in Eastern Europe is as much a desire to have a barrier against information as for military protection along its western border. For the European borderlands people in the Soviet Union have once shown themselves vulnerable to disturbing Western ideas of natural rights and democratic law, and they could succumb again...
...Scheinemann, President of the Russian State Bank, arrived in Paris fully authorized to recognize all foreign debts contracted by Tzarist Governments, with the exception of War obligations...
Colonel Alexander Schwartz, ex-Tzarist officer, challenged Senator Brookhart of Iowa, recently returned from Russia, to a debate on the recognition of the " Lenin-Trotzky Government...