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PAGES |
| Preface |
vii |
| Chapter I.—THE
FLIGHT FROM OMSK |
| By train to Novo-Nikolaevsk—Congested railway
lines—Questions of precedence—Train-jumping—“Bad joss”—A broken
coupling—Successful bribery |
1-11 |
| Chapter II.—WE
TAKE TO SLEIGHS |
| At Bolotnaya—We board ammunition-sleighs—Stripping
the dead—Hospital ghouls—Drinking motor spirit—Sufferings and
patience of the peasants—I nearly get lost—Colonel Ivantsev—I
reach Taiga |
12-20 |
| Chapter III.—CAPTURED |
| To Krasnoyarsk by train—The mysterious Three—The
Whites disarmed—Polite captors—We are disarmed by the Reds—Red
fanaticism—“We never kill prisoners”—Drunk with words—A confused
situation—Russian Christmas Eve, January 6, 1920 |
21-26 |
| Chapter IV.—SOME
HORRORS OF THE RETREAT |
| Fear of the Reds—And of Siberia—Russian
barbarity—Typhus-hospitals at Novo-Nikolaevsk—And at
Taiga—Mortality on the Retreat—Collapse of morality—Families
scattered—Fate of young girls |
27-40 |
| Chapter V.—FACE
TO FACE WITH BOLSHEVISM |
| We are ignored—Impracticable schemes for
escape—Krasnoyarsk—A topsy-turvy world—Bolshevik ignorance
of England—An interview with the Red Governor—Class-warfare—We
are kept as hostages |
41-46 |
| Chapter VI.—WE
LEAVE OUR TRAIN |
| Impersonality of Bolshevik government—Our Omsk
money becomes valueless—We are helped by Mr. Yates—Captain
Horrocks—Housing difficulties—Militarist methods—Crowded
quarters—Helpless refugees—Compulsory registration—My
growing horror of Bolshevism—Captain Martel—English
indiscretion—“The French Uncle” |
47-55 |
| Chapter VII.—I
BECOME A CIVILIAN |
| Difficulties with the Commissars—“You can work
or fight for the Communists”—Threatened with the Concentration
Camp—I register as a journalist—We sell British equipment—Captain
Horrocks gets us all registered—I acquire a dual personality—We
give lessons—An accomplished sergeant—New men, new manners—“No
Hand-shaking”—Old-fashioned Russian generosity—Bolshevik leaders
and manual labour |
56-63 |
| Chapter VIII.—IN
RED KRASNOYARSK |
| Red rejoicings—Abandoned horses—Statistics—Reds in
British uniform—Mistakes that resulted—B.R.C. supplies—An
unsatisfactory barter |
64-69 |
| Chapter IX.—I
ESCAPE |
| I leave my comrades—A murdered White officer—Agents
with false passports—My credentials—My exertions on behalf of my
comrades—I get permission to go to Ekaterinburg—A hurried start—49°
below zero |
70-75 |
| Chapter X.—THE
JOURNEY TO EKATERINBURG |
| Russian railway engineers—Sverdlov—Dovgolevsky—Educated
Bolsheviks’ great interest in intellectual and economic problems—Life
and work on the train—Insatiable workers—Technical experts desire
to leave Russia—Their unsatisfactory status—Car No. 1167—Repair
of bridges—Abandoned White rolling-stock—Safety of Colonel
Johnston—Rise in prices at Novo-Nikolaevsk—Von Blücher—Terror
at Omsk—The “Cheka”—Our train is searched |
76-87 |
| Chapter XI.—TROTSKY
IN EKATERINBURG |
| The Army of Labour—The Red Tocsin—The
Soviet Government composed of journalists—Trotsky—His appetite
for work—Shovelling snow—He deals with the D.M.S.—Propaganda by
poster—“Packed” public meetings—“The Fight against Economic
Ruin”—Trotsky’s contempt for democracy—His train—His Jewish
adaptability—His oratory—Failure of the Army of
Labour—Bureaucracy—Place-hunters |
88-107 |
| Chapter XII.—IN
A “PROPAGANDA HALL” |
| Cartoons and posters—Crowd-psychology—“Workers
of the world, unite!”—Multiplication of Government institutions—A
Bolshevik guide—Communism in action—Private enterprise killed—A
meeting of the Provincial Soviet—Soviet eating-houses—Marketing—Passive
resistance of the peasants |
108-123 |
| Chapter XIII.—THE
MURDER OF THE TSAR |
| The Ippatievsky Dom at Ekaterinburg—Metvietev—Yurovsky—Lettish
Guards—July 16, 1918—Goloshokin—Yurovsky wakes the Imperial
Family—They go down to the cellar—A pathetic procession—Faithful
servants—Yurovsky reads the order for the executions—He shoots
the Tsar—The massacre—The Grand Duchess Tatiana—The bodies
thrown on to motor-lorries—Yurovsky’s anxiety to destroy
all traces of his crime—He is shunned by the Bolsheviks—And
repulsed by Lenin—Interview with Yurovsky, March 18, 1920 |
124-152 |
| Chapter XIV.—THE
BURIAL OF THE TSAR |
| Kopchiki Wood—Captain Pometkovsky—Remains
discovered—Crown jewels—Use of sulphuric acid—The cremation—Return
of the lorries to Ekaterinburg—Prokofy’s tale—Metvietev has the
cellar at Ippatievsky Dom cleaned—Letters of the Tsarina—The
charwomen—False reports circulated—Evidence of Kouzma Letemin—And
of Anatoly Yakimov—Treatment and behaviour of the Imperial Family
at Ekaterinburg—Their piety—Their courtesy—Pankratov’s account
of the Imperial Family and their suite |
153-185 |
| Chapter XV.—THE
CITY OF DREADFUL HUNGER |
| By train to Moscow—A fellow-traveller—Is he
Metvietev?—Derelict rolling-stock—Civilization relapses into
barbarism—A changed city—Disillusionment of my
fellow-travellers—Desolation and famine—Contrast with
pre-war conditions—Bolshevism kills private initiative—Resulting
demoralization |
186-197 |
| Chapter XVI.—THE
MYSTERIES OF MOSCOW |
| Government without law—Chicherin’s assistants—Lost
folk—The last first and the first last—Clumsy White conspirators—Lenin
tolerates anarchism—“The Union of Five Oppressed”—“Russian Friends
of American Freedom”—Many Bolsheviks desire to leave Russia—And
to evangelize the British workman—Jewish Communists’ missionary
zeal—Dr. Karlin imprisoned |
198-205 |
| Chapter XVII.—MY
LIFE IN MOSCOW |
| In a railway carriage—Impassable streets—Food-control—Catholic
churches and priests—Bolshevik intellectuals—Their theories
of education—Libraries nationalized—Christian literature
banned—Bolshevik literature—The destruction of pre-revolutionary
records and newspapers not an unmixed evil—Classic
drama—Lunacharsky—educating the public taste |
206-219 |
| Chapter XVIII.—THE
RED TSAR AND HIS GUESTS |
| I am moved to a Soviet “guest-house”—The underworld
of the Third International—Intrigues with Korea and Japan—Captain
Sadul—Professor Barrakatula—Pan-Mahommedan Congress, April,
1920—Intrigues in India, Central Asia, and Turkey—Lenin—His
appearance—His frugality—Germans in
Moscow—Concession-hunters—Financiers—Diplomats—A Bolshevik
“atmosphere” |
220-232 |
| Chapter XIX.—THE
BOLSHEVIK F.O. AND THE FOREIGN PRESS |
| Foreign journalists enter Russia by underground
methods—Unscrupulous editors—Correspondents used as instruments
of Bolshevik propaganda—Their false position—The guests of the
Soviet—No free intercourse allowed them—They are shepherded by
skilfully selected interpreters—Independent and honest journalism
impossible—Litvinov—The People’s Commissariat of Foreign
Affairs—Rosenberg and Feinberger—The censorship—Its
intolerance—Chicherin—Burke quoted—Feeling of impermanence—A
tea-party |
233-251 |
| Chapter XX.—THE
BOLSHEVIK NEWS AGENCY |
| I get into the Kremlin—The Rosta—An
exhibition—Nationalization of the Press—A poetic
schoolmaster—“Talent charts”—Kerzhentsev—Communist propaganda
in the provinces—Manufacturing public opinion—The wireless
service—Propaganda overreaches itself |
252-261 |
| Chapter XXI.—AN
INTERVIEW WITH THE PATRIARCH |
| Patriarch Tikhon—His views on Church and
State—Strangulation of the Church by State control of
communications—future of religion in Russia—the Catholic
Church—Polish clergy—Communist schools—The Jews—The Freemasons |
262-268 |
| Chapter XXII.—IN
THE DUNGEONS OF THE EXTRAORDINARY COMMISSION |
| I am arrested—And searched—The offices of the
Vecheka—The police station—Youthful policemen—I am searched
again—The Governor of the jail—Solitary confinement—My
cell—Female prisoners—Mental effects of isolation—“Who
had given me away?”—Consolations—Bad diet—Xenofontov
and Mogilevsky—I am interrogated—And released |
269-285 |
| Chapter XXIII.—LENINISM:
THE DESIGN OF THE BOLSHEVIKS |
| Theory of Bolshevism—The Proletariat and the
Parasites—Anti-nationalism of the Bolsheviks—But they foment
nationalist movements abroad—Their political dishonesty—Lenin—His
fanaticism—Landau-Aldanov quoted—Lenin the prophet of
“internationalism”—Radek’s “Bolshevik Party”—The peace with
Esthonia—Bolshevik accomplices and sympathizers abroad—“The
Government of the Poor and of the Oppressed”—Lunacharsky—Bolshevik
emblems—Historical parallels afforded by the Reformation and the
French Revolution—The spread of communistic and revolutionary
ideas abroad is necessary for the continued existence of
Bolshevism in Russia—Relations of the Commissariat of
Foreign Affairs with the Third International—Commissar
Feinberg—Forging passports and foreign paper money—Historical
and political comparisons with Japan—Bolshevik
misgivings—“Illusions, myths, and ghosts” |
286-301 |
| Chapter XXIV.—ABOARD
THE GOOD SHIP “DONGOLA” |
| Failure of Bolshevism to suppress militarism
and capitalism—Foreign capitalists—Corruption and
profiteering—Bureaucracy—The Bolshevik oligarchy—Probable
reaction—I leave Russia under the Litvinov-O’Grady
agreement—I decline Bolshevik offers of employment as
a journalist—Marriage-bells—Helsingfors Harbour |
302-310 |
| APPENDIX |
| Kolchak’s Gold Train
(Chapter I., p. 6) |
311 |
| Burning of a Red Cross Train
(Chapter I., p. 6) |
311 |
| Writings on Station Walls
(Chapter IV., p. 38) |
312 |
| The Propaganda Hall at Ekaterinburg
(Chapter XII., p. 109) |
312 |
| Bolshevik Journalism
(Chapter XX., p. 252) |
313 |
| The Peasants
(Chapter XII., p. 122) |
314 |
| Moscow
(Chapter XV., p. 192) |
317 |
| Bolshevik Modernism |
318 |
| Typhus
(Chapter IV., p. 31) |
320 |
| Conditions in Ekaterinburg
(Chapter XII., p. 123) |
323 |
| The Russian Whites
(Chapter IV., p. 36) |
323 |
| White Troops who Joined the Reds
(Chapter VIII., p. 67) |
325 |
| Trade with Capitalist Countries |
327 |
| The Imperial Family
(Chapter XIII., p. 134) |
328 |
| Lenin
(Chapter XXIII., p. 289) |
329 |
| The Soviet Government |
332 |
| My Bolshevik Travelling Companions
(Chapter X., p. 76) |
333 |
| The Red Labour Army
(Chapter XI., p. 89) |
334 |
| Workmen in Factories
(Chapter XXIV., p. 306) |
335 |
| The Military Position in Siberia |
335 |
| The Education of the Proletariat
(Chapter XI., p. 89) |
337 |
| Index |
341 |