ABSTRACT
A. A. Argunov, Social Revolutionary leader writes: The Paris Center of the Socialist Revolutionary Party was turned by outbreak of war into a smashed ant heap, with the ants running off in all directions biting at each other as they ran. Among the Anarchists and Socialist Revolutionaries, some had been involved in attempts on the lives of tsarist officials. The Republican Detachment was indeed composed of men accustomed to lead the emigre colony, some seventy-five to eighty party activists drawn from the Bolsheviks, Mensheviks, and Socialist Revolutionaries. As unemployment hit all but the war industries, everyone was for the moment free from morning until night to discuss the war. For Russia now as once for Lenin, he raised funds, recruited industrialists and workingmen for the war effort, worked day and night without rest to bring into being the War Industries Committee, which committee Lenin attacked most bitterly as representing a betrayal of the cause of revolution, class struggle, and socialism.
