II. DECIDING FORCES IN POLITICS 128

III. BOLSHEVIK CRITICISM OF DEMOCRACY 134

IV. REVOLUTION AND DICTATORSHIP 146

V. MECHANISM AND THE INDIVIDUAL 157

VI. WHY RUSSIAN COMMUNISM HAS FAILED 165

VII. CONDITIONS FOR THE SUCCESS OF COMMUNISM 178




PART I

THE PRESENT CONDITION OF RUSSIA




I

WHAT IS HOPED FROM BOLSHEVISM


To understand Bolshevism it is not sufficient to know facts; it is
necessary also to enter with sympathy or imagination into a new
spirit. The chief thing that the Bolsheviks have done is to create a