While I have indicated the sources of most of the evidence against the Bolsheviki, either in the text itself or in the foot-notes and references, I have not thought it advisable to burden my pages with such foot-notes and references concerning matters of general knowledge.  To have given references and authorities for all the facts summarized in the historical outlines, for example, would have been simply a show of pedantry and served only to frighten away the ordinary reader.

I have been deeply indebted to the works of other writers, among which I may mention the following:  Peter Kropotkin’s Memoirs of a Revolutionist and Ideals and Realities of Russian Literature; S. Stepniak’s Underground Russia; Leo Deutsch’s Sixteen Years in Siberia; Alexander Ular’s Russia from Within; William English Walling’s Russia’s Message; Zinovy N. Preev’s The Russian Riddle; Maxim Litvinov’s The Bolshevik Revolution:  Its Rise and Meaning; M.J.  Olgin’s The Soul of the Russian Revolution; A.J.  Sack’s The Birth of Russian Democracy; E.A.  Ross’s Russia in Upheaval; Isaac Don Levine’s The Russian Revolution; Bessie Beatty’s The Red Heart of Russia; Louise Bryant’s Six Red Months in Russia; Leon Trotzky’s Our Revolution and The Bolsheviki and World Peace; Gabriel Domergue’s La Russe Rouge; Nikolai Lenine’s The Soviets at Work; Zinoviev and Lenine’s Sozialismus und Krieg; Emile Vandervelde’s Trois Aspects de la Revolution Russe; P.G.  Chesnais’s La Revolution et la Paix and Les Bolsheviks.  I have also freely availed myself of the many admirable translations of official Bolshevist documents published in The Class Struggle, of New York, a pro-Bolshevist magazine; the collection of documents published by The Nation, of New York, a journal exceedingly generous in its treatment of Bolshevism and the Bolsheviki; and of the mass of material published in its excellent “International Notes” by Justice, of London, the oldest Socialist newspaper in the English language, I believe, and one of the most ably edited.

Grateful acknowledgment is hereby made of friendly service rendered and valuable information given by Mr. Alexander Kerensky, former Premier of Russia; Mr. Henry L. Slobodin, of New York; Mr. A.J.  Sack, Director of the Russian Information Bureau in the United States; Dr. Boris Takavenko, editor of La Russia Nuova, Rome, Italy; Mr. William English Walling, New York; and my friend, Father Cahill, of Bennington.

Among the Appendices at the end of the volume will be found some important documents containing some contemporary Russian Socialist judgments of Bolshevism.  These documents are, I venture to suggest, of the utmost possible value and importance to the student and general reader.

    JOHN SPARGO,

    “NESTLEDOWN,”
      OLD BENNNIGTON, VERMONT,
        End of January, 1919.