The Socialist Soviet Republic of Russia

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Excerpt from The Socialist Soviet Republic of Russia: Its Rise and Organisation The present pamphlet is of exceptional interest, being from the pen of a man who was a member of the French military mission during the time Russia was at war, and was afterwards employed by the French Government as its official agent in its dealings with the Bolsheviks and the Soviet Government. In this latter capacity he had numerous opportunities of coming into close contact with various leaders of New Russia, and conceived a deep sympathy for them and their cause. He, therefore, became a strong opponent of the idea of Allied intervention, and with a view to counteracting it wrote, in the summer of last year, a number of private letters to influential politicians in France, including Albert Thomas and Jean Longuet, describing the real condition of affairs in Russia, as distinguished from the official reports issued to the French Press, and the nefarious intrigues of the agents of the Allied Governments. The existence of these letters was not even suspected in Russia until August, 1918, when copies of them were found in the course of a search made by the authorities at the headquarters of the French Military Mission at Moscow. Some of them were immediately made public, and a full collection of them was recently published at Berne. Only one letter giving a survey of the internal organisation of the Soviet Republic and of its foreign policy failed to reach the Berne publishers in time, and it is this letter - or, rather, that part of it which deals with the internal organisation under the Soviet regime - which is now offered to the public in an English translation. The value of the information which it contains is naturally enhanced by the personality of its author, who, starting out as a Saul gradually became a Paul. In fact, since that time Jacques Sadoul openly went over to the Bolshevik side and became the head of the French-speaking section of the Russian Communist Party, in which capacity he played a prominent part in the revolt of the French armed forces at Odessa. At an early date the second part of the letter will be published. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.