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MR. AVERAGE MAN’S IMPRESSION OF THE MEANING OF CERTAIN RUSSIAN WORDS ]
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VIII. Bolshevik Leaders—Brief Sketches 102
X. Government Industry and Agriculture 120
II. Resolutions Adopted at the Conference of the Second All-Russian Congress of Trades Unions 191
III. Financial Policy and Results of the Activities of the People’s Commissariat of Finance 241
IV. REPORTS: (_a_) Metal Industry; (_b_) Development of Rural Industries; (_c_) Nationalization of Agriculture 255
Mr. Average Man’s Impression of the Meaning of _Frontispiece_ Certain Russian Words
Lenin in the courtyard of the Kremlin, Moscow, 46 Summer of 1919
Lenin at his desk in the Kremlin, 1919 50
Exterior and Interior of Lenin’s Home in Zurich 70
Zinovieff, President of the Petrograd Soviet 86
Chicherin, Commissar of Foreign Affairs 94
Litvinoff, Assistant Commissar of Foreign Affairs 102
Children of the Soviet School at Dietskoe Selo 110
Of the five weeks I spent in Soviet Russia ten days were spent in Moscow and eight in Petrograd. The remainder of the time I traveled along the Western Front, from the Esthonian border to Moghilev, with leisurely stops at Pskov, Vitebsk, Polotzk, Smolensk, and numerous small towns. I tried to see as much as possible of this vast and unknown land in the short time at my disposal, and I tried especially to check up from first-hand observation some of the many things I had heard on the outside. I also tried to test the truth of what was told me in Russia itself,—to find visible evidence of the fairness of the claims made. Some popular fancies were quickly dispelled. Disproof of others came sometimes in vividly concrete fashion.