The Fortnightly Review: No. CCCCLXIII, New Series [‎562v] (15/239)

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Fortnightly Review Advertiser.
“’One of the most powerful and coffent indictments of the whole
Russian System which has yet been published in Enylish.”
—The World.
RUSSIA IN REVOLUTION
By G. H. PERRIS,
Author of “ Leo Tolstoy, the Grand Mujik,” “ The Further Memoirs of Marie Bashkirtseff,”
“The Eastern Crisis and British Policy,” &c.
With Portraits and Illustrations. Demy 8vo, 10 s. 6d. net.
“ What is passing at present is not a simple riot, hut a revolution.”—Prince Troubetskoy,
President of the Moscow Zemstvo, to Prince Sviatopolk-Mirsky, December, 1904.
CONTENTS:
PART L—A BLACK HERITAGE.
Mise-en-scene I he Oligarchy—dhe Land without Law—The Underworld: Mendel Rosenbaum’s Story—
The Old Bastille—Annals of Schlusselburg—Siberian Exile as it is—Russia’s “He du Diable”—The
Budget—Debt and Drink—The Tariff—A Sick Society—The Final Crime.
PART IL—PIONEERS OF REVOLUTION.
I he Propagandists, 187 C -74 : Nicholas Tchaykovsky’s Narrative—The Tsar’s Vengeance: Madame
Kovalsky s Narrative—Felix Volkhovsky—Sergius Stepniak and Terrorism—The New Generation :
Di. Soskice ; Mark Broido—The Rise of the Labour Movement : Father Gapon.
PART III.—THE AWAKENING.
The End of Plehve—“ Bloody Sunday” and after—Terrorists and Reformers—The Prospects of the
FROM THE FIRST REVIEWS.
you , have% t o h fi n St 0 a f - I ainst' S ’ r 3 ^ “ °. ne u re ads over Mr. Perris's new book- 1 What a splendid tyranny
miserv is aUn thl Por , the f st0 [>' th ' revolution in Russia, if it is a chronicle of cruelty, stupidity, and uniinagined
Mr Perris h is seen much more'than th 3 ^h 01 *"? a dann S 'vb'rh one could parallel in no other country of modern Europe,
would have 'chosen tH the Pathos of his story, and he has seen it from the standpoint which the martyrs themselves
beautiful. . . The best pan n of hi' book const t’ ^‘/h f ^urted, and gallantly endured, becomes something almost glorious and
careers of the leaders of the revolution Tl f'l ^ and VIV,d . sketch . es w !' ith he often in their own words, of the
inspired by enthusiasm It is much of it a S fi ‘ t T d J? d acCU ^ te plec ? °', work .’ c ? m t nendabl y free from exaggeration, and yet
authoritative. The chapters on the Russian rovermnen^onTh 31 ! 1 ^! 3nd wh 5 r< r. 11 ,' s . b, ? sed . on documents these are invariably
careful, reliable, and clear. Mr Perris's aim was to evnla’in the e aw I e *? ness °f the administration, on finance, and on the tariff are
with an admirable fulness and a wise ss ZaThv His biok fs aroici?'' 1 'r' ' t0 , En S h " h readers, and this he has done
document.”—H. N. Pkaii. SFoLTn™?MoZi„?L e aJ?r. ** 3 Va ‘ U:lbIe politicaI essay and an ^’tensely moving human
originally on the need for i-elf-defence^hai become'in encire of g ' nn i' ng ' The ? utIlor shows how a despotic Government based
are inevitably in direct conflict The result has been ^ xp ' 01 ' atlon and conquesl, with which the newer economic forces
author brings the sameTndiament of arbnrarv nd in ° f any trUe Govc mment or Law. In industrial matters, the
stupidity rather than their tyranny that he most’slronrdv nrtre. a *!£ ld ” ll Y nana g er " ent against the Government. It is, in fact, their
and women who have organised the movements for the attaimnen^nTa them 3 th f 0 I I 8 h , Of the devoted groups of educated men
to that end, Mr. Perris tells us muT thTt ^new and^^ a measure of freedom and for the education of the masses
enabled him to give us a series of romantic yet terrible life histories Tl' S acc|ualn tance with many of these leaders of opinion has
their soul-and-body desolating ^^ 11,0 cruehies o ^ fortresses of Schlusselburg and St. Peter and Paul, with
One must read, in order to form any conception of them the ners^- T kn ° wn , by , bl ‘ ter experience to all these men and women,
it is clear enough between the lines, 1 has bm little hope of a peacefid solnt oiT H ‘l> h , , h , ese , people have been subjected. The author,
present chapter, and not without more blood and tears will the cbsmg page be reached°. 0 ' " ^ t3,e h3S been ,0 ' d t0 itS
“Mr Perris’c vivtd „,.n „ a j , , , —Evening Standard and St. James's Gazette.
life. It takes us back, that is to say, to^he kbdhng 6 !! iys^the^a^ ‘ S a f - revie ^ of tbe past thirty-five years of Russian public
revolution is now once again in progress through™,, 8 thP °f. the . ea rb seventies the seed time of the harvest of wrath. . . The
end are the prospects of < Russia in g Revolution ' ? Mr Parris" 6 who^e inris'iv 011 ! h | ^ be there is n0 law ' ' ' • What in the
sanguine on this point.”—ZW/y Chronicle. ' ’ ’ hose lncisiv e style goes with a very temperate manner, is properly
of the whole Russian system whkh'h^'ye/been ° ne of the m o st powerful and cogent indictments
his arguments all the more acceptable. The savage measur^ coolly enough, on the whole, to make
unimpassioned narratives of many who went through them have hTd m'nh . J h ' Ch ^ a blood-curdling account from the
bo,l„. . . . Those who like .Lch hi,,„, y in ^^'^0 “v,' ** *
—W. E. Garrett Fisher in The World.
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