Transcriber’s Note: Minor errors in punctuation and formatting have been silently corrected. Please see the transcriber’s note at the end of this text for details regarding the handling of any textual issues encountered during its preparation. This version of the text cannot represent certain typographical effects. Italics are delimited with the ‘_’ character as _italic_. “BARBAROUS SOVIET RUSSIA” [Illustration: MR. AVERAGE MAN’S IMPRESSION OF THE MEANING OF CERTAIN RUSSIAN WORDS ] _Copr. Life Pub. Co._ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ “Barbarous Soviet Russia” BY ISAAC McBRIDE [Illustration] NEW YORK THOMAS SELTZER 1920 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Copyright, 1920, By Thomas Seltzer, Inc. Printed in the United States of America All Rights Reserved ------------------------------------------------------------------------ TO NINA LANE McBRIDE ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Acknowledgment is hereby made to the “Christian Science Monitor,” “Universal Service” (Hearst), and “Asia Magazine” for courtesies extended, in using some of the material that appeared in those publications. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE Preface 9 I. Entering Red Land 13 II. With the Red Soldiers 21 III. On to Moscow 41 IV. Moscow 51 V. Interview With Lenin 64 VI. Who Is Lenin? 72 VII. Petrograd 87 VIII. Bolshevik Leaders—Brief Sketches 102 IX. Women and Children 112 X. Government Industry and Agriculture 120 XI. Propaganda 138 XII. Coming Out of Soviet Russia 144 Appendix 157 I. Code of Labor Laws 159