ABSTRACT
The basis of all future political and social changes, the tendencies of economic development, can indeed be predicted almost with certainty. The lack of provisions must have quite different effects from the results of social and political conditions which do not change and which must be enormously impaired by a famine. Besides which it must be remembered that during the last few years the agricultural districts of Russia, even in the regions where peasant production remained untouched, have not produced a surplus big enough to balance the deficit in the famine areas. Peasants, workers, intellectuals have, however, a common interest only when they place themselves on the basis of democracy. In the conditions of Soviet Russia, this is as obvious to the intellectuals as to the peasants, but unfortunately not to the workers, who have been raised to a privileged class.
