ABSTRACT
The Russian Revolution marked the end of the autocracy of Czars and the domineering state church, both of which dictated to the masses. In modern history, at least, it was the first collapse of a profit-making economic system. If Harry Ward tried to maintain an equilibrium composed of thoughtfulness and adjustment to the ineluctable changes of history and the inevitability of movements toward collectivism, corporate or democratic, he incited the established order even though he tried to be objective and present the new order in the Soviet Union as accurately as he could. The Atlantic and even the social-minded Survey joined the Sunday School editors in refusing to publish many of Ward's essays on the new Russia. Ward was instead labeled a "commie," a "pinko," and ostracized because he defended all efforts by human beings toward building a cooperative commonwealth, imperfect though he saw the outcome would be.
