NOTE
CONTENTS
PREFACE
I WHY HAVE THE BOLSHEVIKI RETAINED POWER?
II THE SOVIETS
III THE SOVIETS UNDER THE BOLSHEVIKI
IV THE UNDEMOCRATIC SOVIET STATE
V THE PEASANTS AND THE LAND
VI THE BOLSHEVIKI AND THE PEASANTS
VII THE RED TERROR
VIII INDUSTRY UNDER SOVIET CONTROL
IX THE NATIONALIZATION OF INDUSTRY I
X THE NATIONALIZATION OF INDUSTRY II
XI FREEDOM OF PRESS AND ASSEMBLY
XII "THE DICTATORSHIP OF THE PROLETARIAT"
XIII STATE COMMUNISM AND LABOR CONSCRIPTION
XIV LET THE VERDICT BE RENDERED
I Decree Regarding Grain Control
II Regulation Concerning the Administration of National Undertakings Part I
III Instructions on Workers' Control ( Official Text )
HARPER'S CITIZEN'S SERIES Edited by WILLIAM F. WILLOUGHBY
“THE GREATEST FAILURE
IN ALL HISTORY”
Books by
JOHN SPARGO
“THE GREATEST FAILURE IN ALL HISTORY”
RUSSIA AS AN AMERICAN PROBLEM
THE PSYCHOLOGY OF BOLSHEVISM
BOLSHEVISM
AMERICANISM AND SOCIAL DEMOCRACY
SOCIAL DEMOCRACY EXPLAINED
HARPER & BROTHERS, NEW YORK
Established 1817
“THE GREATEST FAILURE
IN ALL HISTORY”
A Critical Examination of
The Actual Workings of
Bolshevism In Russia
BY
JOHN SPARGO
AUTHOR OF
“BOLSHEVISM” “THE PSYCHOLOGY OF BOLSHEVISM”
“RUSSIA AS AN AMERICAN PROBLEM”
“SOCIAL DEMOCRACY EXPLAINED”
HARPER & BROTHERS PUBLISHERS
NEW YORK AND LONDON
The Greatest Failure in all History
Copyright, 1920, by Harper & Brothers
Printed in the United States of America
Published August, 1920
G-U
To The
MISGUIDED, THE MISTAKEN,
AND THE MISINFORMED
Who Have Hailed Bolshevism in Russia as the Advent of
A NEW FREEDOM
I Submit a Part of the Indisputable Evidence Upon Which, as a Socialist, Who Believes in Democracy in Government and Industry—and in the Generous Individualism Which Communism of Opportunity Alone Can Give—I Base My Condemnation of Bolshevism as a Mad Attempt, by a Brutal and Degrading Tyranny, to Carry Out an Impossible Program
