The Russian Revolution; The Jugoslav Movement

By Petrunkevitch, Alexander Ivanovitch

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Title:	The Russian Revolution; The Jugoslav Movement
Author:	Petrunkevitch, Alexander Ivanovitch
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Language:	English
Subject:	Literature, Literature & thought, Writing.
Collections:	Classic Literature Collection, Blackmask Online Collection
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Publisher:	Blackmask Online


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Description
Preface: Whatever may be its final outcome the Russian Revolution of 1917 bids fair to remain one of the great events of modern history. Its consequences are still immeasurable and today to many they appear as fraught with menace as with hope. They have within less than a year led a mighty empire to the brink of dissolution and no man can foretell where and how the process will end for worse or for better. The Russian Revolution saved the Central Powers at the moment when their prospect looked darkest, but on the other hand it facilitated the entrance of the United States into the war as one for liberty and democracy. Time has yet to show whether the loss or the gain has been the greater for the Allied cause and for mankind. It will be paid for at a heavy price but our hope cannot easily be shaken that sooner or later an event so full of promise for the misruled millions of the autocratic empire of the Tsar will mark a step forward, not backward, in the progress of the world. The whole story of the sudden out?break in Petrograd which in little more than a day swept away the fabric of imperial government will not soon be told, if ever. All real information on the subject is timely and valuable. We need such studies as those contained in the present volume, in order that we may understand what has happened, and why it has happened. The rise of the modern Jugo?Slav movement offers us a very different picture. The subject and even the name are new to most people, the scale is much smaller; the events have been less dramatic. But the unconquerable resistance which a small disjointed nationality has offered throughout the ages to ill fortune, oppression, and to attempts to obliterate it entirely arouses our admiration. The movement too was intimately connected with the outbreak of the present world war which cannot be understood without taking it into account. It still represents only an ardent hope for the future but when the day of peace and justice comes no permanent allotment can be made of the lands east of the Adriatic that shall not give it at least some satisfaction.

Table of Contents
Table of Contents: The Russian Revolution; The Jugo?Slav Movement, 1 -- Alexander Petrunkevitch, Samuel Northrup Harper, Frank Alfred Golder, Robert Joseph Kerner, 1 -- Preface, 1 -- MARCH 18, 1918. THE ROLE OF THE INTELLECTUALS IN THE LIBERATING -- MOVEMENT IN RUSSIA THE ROLE OF THE NTELLECTUALS IN THE LIBERATING -- MOVEMENT IN RUSSIA, 2 -- FORCES BEHIND THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION FORCES BEHIND THE RUSSIAN -- REVOLUTION, 7 -- THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION, 13 -- THE JUGO?SLAV MOVEMENT, 24 -- APPENDICES DECLARATION OF THE JUGO?SLAV CLUB OF THE AUSTRIAN -- PARLIAMENT, 29 -- APPENDIX II. THE PAct OF CORFU, 30