ABSTRACT

Soviet Russia has been described and discussed from the economic and sociological points of view; this is a study of the psychological side of the problem. It is not only unfair to exaggerate the "atrocities" of the Soviets, it is also very unwise, and deceptive immorality at the worst is only a momentary rebellion against a ruling morality; the total absence of morality even without excesses, as is the case at this moment in Russia, is the dethroning of moral law, which is a great deal worse. Bolsheviks are neither good nor bad, neither cruel nor kind, neither just nor unjust. Love, kindness, morality, pity and justice are equally banished from Bolshevia as well as the Christian inverse of those virtues. All those terms and conceptions are considered "bourgeois prejudice", and the Russian communists exert themselves successfully to train a people of a hundred and fifty millions into using a new code devoid of all Christian morality.