ABSTRACT
In point of political form, Soviet Russia is a despotism, even as the Russia of the Romanoffs was a despotism. Bolshevism has actually intensified the characteristics of Russia as a police State. The Russian people have no effective influence upon the conduct of its own life. The social and political endeavours of the regime, the multitude of measures to promote hygiene, to develop health resorts, to ensure motherhood protection and the protection of children, have aroused needs and wishes which, having once come into being, will persist. To an increasing extent to-day the young people of the towns are the sturdiest props of the extant regime, since bolshevism has been inculcated into them in their cradles. To conclude, the destiny of bolshevism and of Soviet Russia will be largely influenced by the growth of their relationship to the non-Russian world and by the course of development which the outer world itself pursues.
