persecution of the revolutionists.  Accused of high treason by the Provisional Government, he fled, but returned and joined the Lenine-Trotzky forces.  Prince Andronikov, associate of Rasputin; (Lenine’s “My friend, the Prince"); Orlov, police agent and “denouncer” and secretary of the infamous Protopopov; Postnikov, convicted and imprisoned as a German spy in 1910; Lepinsky, formerly in the Czar’s secret police; and Gualkine, friend of the unspeakable Rasputin, are some of the other men who have been closely identified with the “proletarian regime” of the Bolsheviki.[46] The man they released from prison and placed in the important position of Military Commander of Petrograd was Muraviev, who had been chief of the Czar’s police and was regarded by even the moderate members of the Provisional Government, both under Lvov and Kerensky, as a dangerous reactionary.[47] Karl Radek, the Bohemian, a notorious leader of the Russian Bolsheviki, who undertook to stir up the German workers and direct the Spartacide revolt, was, according to Justice, expelled from the German Social Democratic party before the war as a thief and a police spy.[48] How shall we justify men calling themselves Socialists and proletarian revolutionists, who ally themselves with such men as these, but imprison, harry, and abuse such men and women as Bourtzev, Kropotkin, Plechanov, Breshkovskaya, Tchaykovsky, Spiridonova, Agounov, Larokine, Avksentiev, and many other Socialists like them?

In surveying the fight of the Bolsheviki to establish their rule it is impossible to fail to observe that their chief animus has been directed against other Socialists, rather than against members of the reactionary parties.  That this has been the fact they do not themselves deny.  For example, the “People’s Commissary of Justice,” G.I.  Oppokov, better known as “Lomov,” declared in an interview in January, 1918:  “Our chief enemies are not the Cadets.  Our most irreconcilable opponents are the Moderate Socialists.  This explains the arrests of Socialists and the closing down of Socialist newspapers.  Such measures of repression are, however, only temporary."[49] And in the Soviet at Petrograd, July 30, 1918, according to Pravda, Lachevitch, one of the delegates, said:  “The Socialist-Revolutionists of the Right and the Mensheviki are more dangerous for the government of the Soviets than the bourgeoisie.  But these enemies are not yet exterminated and can move about freely.  The proletariat must act.  We ought, once for all, to rid ourselves of the Socialist-Revolutionists of the Right and of the Mensheviki.”

In this summary of the Bolsheviki war against democracy, it will be observed, no attempt has been made to gather all the lurid and fantastic stories which have been published by sensational journalists.  The testimony comes from Socialist sources of the utmost reliability, much of it from official Bolshevist sources.  The system of oppression it describes is twin brother to that which existed under the Romanovs, to end which hundreds of thousands of the noblest and best of our humankind gave up their lives.  Under the banner of Social Democracy a tyranny has been established as infamous as anything in the annals of autocracy.