The Greatest Failure in All History

About this eBook

Author

Spargo, John, 1876-1966

Title

"The Greatest Failure in All History" A Critical Examination of the Actual Workings of Bolshevism in Russia

Credits

Produced by Richard Hulse, Wayne Hammond and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

Language

English

LoC Class

DK: History: General and Eastern Hemisphere: Russia, Former Soviet Republics, Poland

Subject

Communism -- Russia

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 51594

Release Date

March 28, 2016

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.“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
2. 2.NOTE
3. 3.CONTENTS
4. 4.PREFACE
5. 5.I WHY HAVE THE BOLSHEVIKI RETAINED POWER?
6. 6.II THE SOVIETS
7. 7.III THE SOVIETS UNDER THE BOLSHEVIKI — No. 994. Town of Melenki (Prov. of Vladimir) Feb. 25, 1919
8. 8.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 — 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 — 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 — From Voter to National Government—Russia and U. S. A. 6
9. 9.V THE PEASANTS AND THE LAND
10. 10.VI THE BOLSHEVIKI AND THE PEASANTS
11. 11.VII THE RED TERROR — Arrest of Right Socialists-Revolutionaries — Arrest of a Priest — Struggle Against Counter-Revolutionaries — House Committee Fined — The Arrest of Speculators
12. 12.VIII INDUSTRY UNDER SOVIET CONTROL
13. 13.IX THE NATIONALIZATION OF INDUSTRY—I
14. 14.X THE NATIONALIZATION OF INDUSTRY—II
15. 15.XI FREEDOM OF PRESS AND ASSEMBLY — Obligatory Regulation No. 27 — The Revolutionary Tribunal of the Press — Decree Regulating Right of Public Associations and Meetings
16. 16.XII “THE DICTATORSHIP OF THE PROLETARIAT”
17. 17.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
18. 18.XIV LET THE VERDICT BE RENDERED — FINIS
19. 19.I Decree Regarding Grain Control
20. 20.II Regulation Concerning the Administration of National Undertakings — Part I — Part II — Part III
21. 21.III Instructions on Workers’ Control — ( Official Text ) — THE END — A DIPLOMAT’S WIFE IN MEXICO By Edith O’Shaughnessy — THE SUNNY SIDE OF DIPLOMATIC LIFE By Madame de Hegermann-Lindencrone — 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
22. 22.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 — Transcriber's Note:

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