NOTE ON THE CONTENTS.
The article appears that here for the first time in English translation was originally published in Russian, in four installments, in four issues of the Moscow daily, Izvestia, beginning November 6 and ending November 13, 1919, to commemorate the second anniversary of the founding of the Soviet Government.
The attentive reader will occasionally need to supply the year, as frequently dates are given without the addition of the year, but he will recall that he has in most cases merely to decide whether 1918 or 1919 is meant.
As the diplomatic documents mentioned in the text have in some cases been already published in English, footnotes have been added, which are not by the author of the original, to refer English readers to publications where they may find translations of such documents.
A large collection of valuable documents will be found in "Russian-American Relations 1917-1920," published by Harcourt, Brace, and Howe, New York, 1920. Price $3.50.
