ABSTRACT
Every revolution springs from anger and fury and hate, and wild rage of destruction marks its commencement and its progress. "The people are like a child: they must break everything to see what is inside it", is another of Bu's remarks. All great revolutions have passed over the country like devastating natural catastrophes, trampling on men and property, and destroying without discrimination the worthless with the valuable, the innocent with the guilty. Carlyle wrote the History of the French Revolution. The work of the great Scotsman is one loud shriek of horror at the cruelties of this revolution, whose historical necessity he nevertheless upholds. Russian Bolshevism, now in its twelfth year after the conquest of power, has made this attempt— an unparalleled, a truly unique experiment. The whole terror of the Revolution continuously does not invade him, nor can he escape from the sense of historical purpose and actuality in all their formidable proportions.
