Author : M. Philips Price
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781330030455
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (34 download)
Book Synopsis The Old Order in Europe and the New Order in Russia by : M. Philips Price
Download or read book The Old Order in Europe and the New Order in Russia written by M. Philips Price and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-02 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Old Order in Europe and the New Order in Russia Having been a land where apparently everyone was contented with the government and the existing order, Russia became all of a sudden, a land of "anarchy and chaos," where a large section of the community were so discontented that they were, by violent methods, removing that existing order and trying to replace it by something else. What had happened to cause this astonishing change? Was there really "civil peace, law and order" in Russia under Tsarism and Kerensky, and did "anarchy and chaos" and class warfare commence with the October revolution? Let us see first what actually were the conditions under which the population of Russia lived before the revolution. Russia under Tsarism First let us briefly examine the principal elements in Russian rural and urban society, and their relations to each other, in order to see what were the circumstances which made a political upheaval inevitable. Central and northern Russia consist of wide areas of agricultural land and forests dotted with towns and other centers, where industry has developed on the European factory system. Parallel with and dependent upon the larger factories are many subsidiary industries which are still carried on in the villages on the old domestic industrial system. In many areas the factories are scattered about among the villages and thus there is a continual intercourse between the workers on the field and the toilers in the workshop. Most peasant families have one or two members working in cotton, timber, or leather mills near the village or preparing the raw materials for the factory in some little cooperative "artel." These workers still retain their land allotments, which they work in spring and autumn side by side with their relatives and fellow-villagers, who spend all their time on the land. In the big towns, however, where the large metal and engineering industries are situated, there is a class of skilled workers, who by the specialized nature of their craft have lost all direct touch with the land. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
