ABSTRACT
An intolerably painful book for us to read, The Dark Side of the Moon must be read, every word of it, by any who would attempt to understand the history of one's time. Thus Russia was putting an end to the fixity or bondage which had been decreed by the enlightened autocrats, Peter and Catherine and their successors. As Dallin earlier made clear in his The Real Soviet Russia, the class of slaves is today the largest productive class in Soviet society, situated at the bottom of the social pyramid, unreached even by the shadowy paper constitution and bill of rights, devoid of all rights whatsoever, planfully exploited to the point of exhaustion and annihilation. As has been the case wherever a numerous class of slaves, private or state, exists alongside of poor freemen, the latter inevitably begin to feel the pressure of the slave system in lowered remuneration and lessened freedom.
