While in some respects, such as this terrible savagery, Bolshevism has out-Heroded Herod and surpassed the regime of the Romanovs in cruel oppression, upon the whole its methods have been very like that of the latter.  There is really not much to choose between the ways of Stolypin and Von Plehve and those of the Lenine-Trotzky rule.  The methods employed have been very similar and in not a few instances the same men who acted as the agents of espionage and tyranny for the Czar have served the Bolsheviki in the same capacity.  Just as under Czarism there was alliance with the Black Hundreds and with all sorts of corrupt and vicious criminal agents, so we find the same phenomenon recurring under the Bolsheviki.  The time has not yet arrived for the compilation of the full record of Bolshevism in this particular, but enough is known to justify the charge here made.  That agents-provocateurs, spies, informers, police agents, and pogrom-makers formerly in the service of the Czar have been given positions of trust and honor by Lenine and Trotzky unfortunately admits of no doubt whatever.

It was stated at a meeting of Russians held in Paris in the summer of 1917 that one of the first Russian regiments which refused to obey orders to advance “contained 120 former political or civil police agents out of 181 refractory soldiers.”  During the Kerensky regime, at the time when Lenine was carrying on his propaganda through Pravda,[45] Vladimir Bourtzev exposed three notorious agents of the old police terror, provocateurs, who were working on the paper.  In August, 1917, the Jewish Conjoint Committee in London published a long telegram from the representative of the Jewish Committee in Petrograd, calling attention to the fact that Lenine’s party was working in tacit agreement with the Black Hundreds.  The telegram is here given in full: 

Extreme Russian reactionaries have allied themselves closely with extreme revolutionaries, and Black Hundreds have entered into tacit coalition with the Lenine party.  In the army the former agents and detectives of the political police carry on ardent campaign for defeat, and in the rear the former agents-provocateurs prepare and direct endless troubles.

The motives of this policy on the part of the reactionaries are clear.  It is the direct road to a counter-revolution.  The troubles, the insurrections, and shocking disorders which follow provoke disgust at the Revolution, while the military defeats prepare the ground for an intervention of the old friend of the Russian Black Hundreds, William II, the counter-revolutionaries work systematically for the defeat of the Russian armies, sometimes openly, cynically.

Thus in their press and proclamations they go so far as to throw the whole responsibility for the war and for the obstacles placed in the way of a peace with Germany on the Jews.  It is these “diabolical Jews,” they say, who prevent the conclusion of peace and insist