For I am just as much of a socialist as when I went to Russia in May, 1917, and just as little of an anarchist. I believe that the next economic development will be socialism, that is coöperation, common ownership of the principal means of production, and the administration of all departments of government for the collective good of all the people. I believe that the world is for the many, not the few. But Russia has demonstrated that there is no advantage to be gained by taking all power out of the hands of one class and placing it in the hands of another. Too much power rests now in the hands of a small class. But that class never abused its power more ruthlessly than the Russian Tavarishi did in the 1917 revolution. The lesson of Russia to America is patient, intelligent, clear-sighted preparation for the next economic development. Beginning with the youngest children, we must contrive for all children a system of education which will create in the coming generation a thinking working class, one which will accept responsibility as well as demand power, and into whose hands we can safely confide authority and destiny. _Printed in the U. S. A._ The following pages contain advertisements of a few of the Macmillan books on kindred subjects Russia in 1916 BY STEPHEN GRAHAM _Frontispiece, 12mo, $1.25_ “Impressionistic pen-pictures which aptly reflect the mood of present-day Russia.... He speaks with sympathy and admiration.”--_New York Evening Post._ “Authentic, instructive, and interesting. He is both scholarly and practical. He has a storehouse of information in a mind well qualified to analyze it.... In this vitally interesting volume he gives us a marvelously clear and keen sketch of that country as it is to-day with its people, noble and peasant.”--_Philadelphia Press._ “A keen, penetrating, sympathetic study of Russian conditions and tendencies during the war, by a man who knows Russia well and who has exceptional ability for making his own observations and impressions known to others.”--_New York Tribune._ “If all the countries at war had such an interpreter as Mr. Graham, we should be able to look more deeply into the hearts of their peoples.”--_Boston Transcript._ THE MACMILLAN COMPANY Publishers 64-66 Fifth Avenue New York Russia and the World BY STEPHEN GRAHAM _Illustrated, cloth, 8vo, $2.25_ For more than seven years Stephen Graham has been a close student of things Russian. Compelled by an intense sympathy with the country and its people, he forsook his native England and went to Russia when he was twenty-three to study at first hand the life and customs of that country. This was the beginning of an attachment which grew stronger with the years and out of which have come several of the most important contributions made to English literature bearing on the Russia of modern times.