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Title: Through the Russian Revolution
Year: 1921 (1920s)
Authors: Williams, Albert Rhys, 1883-1962
Subjects: Communism Communisme
Publisher: New York, Boni and Liveright
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e established by setting up telephono-graph apparatus. The Yunkers turn the bridges,cutting off the working-class districts; the Kronstadtsailors close them again. The offices of the Com-munist papers are locked and sealed, cutting offthe flow of news; the Red Guards break the sealsand set the presses running again. Attempt is made to suppress the Revolution byforce of arms. Kerensky begins calling depend-able troops into the city; that is, troops that maybe depended upon to shoot down the rising workers.Among these are the Zenith Battery and the CyclistsBattalion. Along the highroads on which theseunits are advancing into the city the Revolutionposts its forces. They attack the enemy, not withguns but with ideas. They subject these troops toa withering fire of arguments and pleas. Result:these troops that are being rushed to the city tocrush the Revolution enter instead to aid and abet it. To these zealots of the Communist faith, all sol-diers succumb, even the Cossacks. Brother Cos-
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TM C KEM? € HAM H HAH CUM mm: The Red Peasant. Soldier and Workingman (on the left) to the Cossack (center) : Cossack, with whom are you? With us or WITH them?—(The Landlords, Generals and Capitalists). ALL POWER TO THE SOVIET 97 sacks! reads the appeal to them, you are beingincited against us by grafters, parasites, landlordsand by our own Cossack generals who wish to crushour Revolution. Comrade Cossacks! Do not fallin with this plan of Cain. And the Cossacks like-wise line up under the banner of the Revolution. CHAPTER VII NOVEMBER 7TH—A NEW DATE IN HISTORY TXTHILE Petrograd is in a tumult of dashing pa-^ trols and contending voices, men from all overRussia come pouring into the city. They are dele-gates to the Second All-Russian Congress of Sovietsconvening at Smolny. All eyes are turned towardsSmolny. Formerly a school for the daughters of the no-bility, Smolny is now the center of the Soviets. Itstands on the Neva, a huge stately structure, coldand grey by day. But by nigh

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