9. Describe the condition of transportation in bolshevist Russia.
(Brasol, pages 135-141.)

10. What were the results of the bolshevist attempt to fix prices by
governmental decree? (Brasol, pages 154-155.)

11. What was the attitude of bolshevism toward the peasants?
(Bloomfield, page 297.)

12. What was the relation between bolshevist theory and bolshevist
practice? (Bloomfield, pages 299-300.)


TOPICS FOR INVESTIGATION AND REPORT

I

1. Make as thorough a study as the time allows of material appearing
in newspapers and magazines, between November, 1917, and the present
time, on the subject of bolshevism. (Consult newspaper files, and also
the _Readers' Index to Periodical Literature_.)

(a) Classify the material according as it consists of direct
quotations from bolshevist leaders, or of indirect quotations.

(b) Classify the material according as it is favorable to bolshevism,
unfavorable, or neutral.

(c) Classify the material according as it consists of reports of
persons who had themselves actually investigated the situation in