The Greatest Failure in All History A Critical Examination of the Actual Workings of Bolshevism in Russia
John Spargo
The Greatest Failure in All History A Critical Examination of the Actual Workings of Bolshevism in Russia
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“THE GREATEST FAILURE IN ALL HISTORY”
To The MISGUIDED, THE MISTAKEN, AND THE MISINFORMED Who Have Hailed Bolshevism in Russia as the Advent of A NEW FREEDOM
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CONTENTS
PREFACE
I WHY HAVE THE BOLSHEVIKI RETAINED POWER?
II THE SOVIETS
III THE SOVIETS UNDER THE BOLSHEVIKI
No. 994. Town of Melenki (Prov. of Vladimir) Feb. 25, 1919
IV THE UNDEMOCRATIC SOVIET STATE
Article IV
Chapter XIII THE RIGHT TO VOTE
Chapter XIV ELECTIONS
Chapter XV THE CHECKING AND CANCELLATION OF ELECTIONS AND RECALL OF THE DEPUTIES
Chapter XIII THE RIGHT TO VOTE
Chapter XIV ELECTIONS
Chapter XV THE CHECKING AND CANCELLATION OF ELECTIONS AND RECALL OF THE DEPUTIES
Article III Construction of the Soviet Power A. Organization of the Central Power
Chapter VI THE ALL-RUSSIAN CONGRESS OF SOVIETS OF WORKERS’, PEASANTS’, COSSACKS’, AND RED ARMY DEPUTIES
Chapter VII THE ALL-RUSSIAN CENTRAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
Chapter VIII THE COUNCIL OF PEOPLE’S COMMISSARS
Chapter IX AFFAIRS IN THE JURISDICTION OF THE ALL-RUSSIAN CONGRESS AND THE ALL-RUSSIAN CENTRAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
Chapter VI THE ALL-RUSSIAN CONGRESS OF SOVIETS OF WORKERS’, PEASANTS’, COSSACKS’, AND RED ARMY DEPUTIES
Chapter VII THE ALL-RUSSIAN CENTRAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
Chapter VIII THE COUNCIL OF PEOPLE’S COMMISSARS
Chapter IX AFFAIRS IN THE JURISDICTION OF THE ALL-RUSSIAN CONGRESS AND THE ALL-RUSSIAN CENTRAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
B. Organization of Local Soviets
Chapter X THE CONGRESSES OF THE SOVIETS
Chapter XI THE SOVIET OF DEPUTIES
Chapter XII JURISDICTION OF THE LOCAL ORGANS OF THE SOVIETS
Chapter X THE CONGRESSES OF THE SOVIETS
Chapter XI THE SOVIET OF DEPUTIES
Chapter XII JURISDICTION OF THE LOCAL ORGANS OF THE SOVIETS
From Voter to National Government—Russia and U. S. A.6
V THE PEASANTS AND THE LAND
VI THE BOLSHEVIKI AND THE PEASANTS
VII THE RED TERROR
Arrest of Right Socialists-Revolutionaries
Arrest of a Priest
Struggle Against Counter-Revolutionaries
House Committee Fined
The Arrest of Speculators
Arrest of a Priest
Struggle Against Counter-Revolutionaries
House Committee Fined
The Arrest of Speculators
VIII INDUSTRY UNDER SOVIET CONTROL
IX THE NATIONALIZATION OF INDUSTRY—I
X THE NATIONALIZATION OF INDUSTRY—II
XI FREEDOM OF PRESS AND ASSEMBLY
Obligatory Regulation No. 27
The Revolutionary Tribunal of the Press
Decree Regulating Right of Public Associations and Meetings
The Revolutionary Tribunal of the Press
Decree Regulating Right of Public Associations and Meetings
XII “THE DICTATORSHIP OF THE PROLETARIAT”
XIII STATE COMMUNISM AND LABOR CONSCRIPTION
Article I On Compulsory Labor
Decree of the Workers’ and Peasants’ Council of Defense on the First Revolutionary Labor Army
Order to the First Revolutionary Labor Army
Order to the First Revolutionary Labor Army
XIV LET THE VERDICT BE RENDERED
FINIS
I Decree Regarding Grain Control
II Regulation Concerning the Administration of National Undertakings
Part I
Part II
Part III
III Instructions on Workers’ Control
(Official Text)
THE END
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IN THE COURTS OF MEMORY By Madame de Hegermann-Lindencrone
THE STORY OF A PIONEER By Anna Howard Shaw; with the collaboration of Elizabeth Jordan
MARK TWAIN: A Biography By Albert Bigelow Paine
HARPER’S CITIZEN’S SERIES Edited by WILLIAM F. WILLOUGHBY Professor of Government and Jurisprudence at Princeton University
PRINCIPLES OF LABOR LEGISLATION By John R. Commons, LL.D.
John B. Andrews, Ph.D. Secretary of the American Association for Labor Legislation Editor of the “American Labor Legislation Review”
PRINCIPLES OF CONSTITUTIONAL GOVERNMENT By Frank J. Goodnow, LL.D. President Johns Hopkins University
ROMAN HOLIDAYS, AND OTHERS Illustrated
LONDON FILMS Illustrated
CERTAIN DELIGHTFUL ENGLISH TOWNS Illustrated
SEVEN ENGLISH CITIES Illustrated
FAMILIAR SPANISH TRAVELS Illustrated
A LITTLE SWISS SOJOURN Illustrated
MY YEAR IN A LOG CABIN Illustrated
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