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Rykoff, the newly appointed leader of the Bolshevik Soviet system of govera" ment is a man of totally different charac
He has none of the late ter to Levin. leader's inhuman, inexorable pursuit of a political theory. He is quite human. Perhaps this is beenuse he is a peasant
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At the Convocation of Yerk en Febru- y 8th the Archbishop, referring to the sure this Convocation regards the advent change of Government, said:1 am
gloomy apprehension. When party has of th
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HOLLAND--OOST AZIE LIJN himself, self-educated, acil-made in every futained day soution of Joan, the formul
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a fair chanes and goodwill to the secretly tried, exiled to the weary wastes now Government. It may be that a new voice on behalf of peace in Europe; spoken of Siberia there to rot away his life.
When Kerensky set up his provisional by a Government which clain very government in 101: he released the exiles specially to represent the workers of this of Siberia, Rykoff's chains were struck country, may win a new response from the off, he set out for the capital. A natur workers of other hations. We trust that ally thoughtful turn of mind, a thirst for mer who know intimately the virgna
now experience And new energy to the for a hotter Russia animated the enunci- ated exile. Rykoff was at 37 then. But consideration of the ever-pressing problem he had acquired poise through suffering of unemployment There are many here representing al districts who will add He returned no blood-thirsty fanatic: that we are that they will take if rather was he a force for moderation the revolutionary councils. He held all are the oldest and nobles of call
industries-the tillage of the land.", human life sacred. The wild orgies of Lenin horrified him. For this reason Rykoff, who hail headed the Moscow Soviet on his return from exile, retired. For time his star was eclipsed by the red horror of Lenin's region of terror:
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A year later, however, he appeared on the scene again, his position strengthen ed rather than weakened by his refusal to lend himself to the extremism of the ferocious Lenin. He rose swiftly. He chairaianship of the Soviet Executive." When Lenin was shot at and wounded in 1919, ykoff reigned in his stend.
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A Russian friend who introduced me to the Bolshevik leader in 1918 told me to expect no fine manners; but not to take umbrage at what might appear boorishness the man.
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pronounced stutter, a hint of shyness, but nothing of the boorishness. I had been led to expect.
From him I gathered-reading between the lines of his spoken words that his heart is far from being in the wholesale
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carnage which had gone befote the achieved revolution. Humanity looked out from his eyes, and his mouth suggest ed to me humour, softness, emotion.
What effect will the coming of Rykoff have on the Soviet system? Searity as is the data that one has to go' on 'to-day, I recall as significant one remark Hykoff made to me in 1019. He said: "It is of peramount importance to Russia to re- stare her vast peasant industries."
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