who came here, such as Professor Goode,[1] the left-liberal British Col. Malone,[1] or journalists through whom we bring the truth of the Russian situation to the wide masses of all countries, played a more important part. With the gradual decline of the power of the imperialists, the peace movement increases among the toiling masses of neighboring states who long for peace with us. In answer to the willingness of the Baltic States (except Finland) to begin peace negotiations with us, the Entente let Yudenich loose on Petrograd and asked all other governments to form a complete blockade of Soviet Russia. The struggle between the old world and the Revolution is strenuous. The war between us and Denikin, Yudenich and Kolchak, is only part of the world civil war which is assuming a more obvious shape. In the East we are becoming more friendly with Afghanistan and are upholding the cause of all oppressed peoples[2] The scene of the present struggle between two worlds has no precedent in the immensity of its proportions. Every day its growth is becoming more and more noticeable in England, France and America. All central Europe is on the threshold of great new events. The foreign policy of Soviet Russia conforms more and more to the universal struggle between the revolution and the old world.
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Both these gentlemen set down their observations in book form: The Russian Republic, by Colonel Cecil L'Estrange Malone (Harcourt, Brace and Howe. New York, 1920); Bolshevism at Work, by William T. Goode (same publisher, 1920) price $1.00 each.
- ↑ See "The Soviet Power and the Mussulman World," Soviet wireless of August 11, 1919, in Soviet Russia, Vol. I, No. 25 (November 22, 1919).
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