Through the Russian Revolution . dered over these queries andwere shaken. Their morale broke down. Theyfought half heartedly. They mutinied. The Whitesin tens of thousands—whole battalions and ambu-lance corps—came over to the Revolution. Oneafter another the armies of the Counter-Revolutioncrumpled up or melted away like snow in a Russianspring. The great steel cordon tightening aroundthe Revolution was smashed to bits. The Revolution was triumphant. The Sovietswere saved. But with what appalling sacrifices! For three years, says Lenin, our Havoc Wrought whole energy was devoted to the tasks
Through the Russian Revolution . dered over these queries andwere shaken. Their morale broke down. Theyfought half heartedly. They mutinied. The Whitesin tens of thousands—whole battalions and ambu-lance corps—came over to the Revolution. Oneafter another the armies of the Counter-Revolutioncrumpled up or melted away like snow in a Russianspring. The great steel cordon tightening aroundthe Revolution was smashed to bits. The Revolution was triumphant. The Sovietswere saved. But with what appalling sacrifices! For three years, says Lenin, our Havoc Wrought whole energy was devoted to the tasks by Intervention, of war. The wealth of the nation was poured into the army. Fields were untilled, machines untended. Lack of fuel shut down the factories. Green wood under the boilers * Appendix IV. A Bolshevik Circular for British Soldiers. POCCMiiCHAfl COUMA/lMCTllHECHAfl OifflEPATMBHAfl COBETCHAH PFCnrB/IMHA. npo UAVASHTO^-E0A€HH«i4, A€HHHMH4 ,Ka/lHAlK4,. TOB4Pni4H!EOPHTeCL C 3AB43011!yHMHT0«AMT6 BOUIb! The Red Army has Crushed the Whiie Guard Parasites—Yudenich,Denikin, Kolchak.—Comrades! Fight now against Infection! Annihi-late THE Typhus-bearing Louse!—Soviet Health Poster. RETROSPECT 283 ruined the locomotives. The retreating armies toreup railway tracks, blew up bridges and depots andfired the grain fields and the villages. The Polesnot only destroyed the water-works and electric-sta-tion of Kiev, but in sheer malice dynamited theCathedral of St. Vladimir. The Counter-Revolutionists turned their retreatinto an orgy of destruction. With torch and dyna-mite they laid waste the land leaving behind a blackwake of ruins and ashes. A host of other evils came out of the war—drastic censorship, arbitrary arrests, drum-headcourt-martials. The high handed measures chargedagainst the Communists were to a large extent meas-ures of war—none the less they were casualties tothe ideals of the Revolution. Then the human casualties! The
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