Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Stead's Review, Vol. 54: October 30, 1920
Denekine struggled hard to remove the impression that he was fighting, not only against the Bolsheviks, but also to deprive the proletariat of the freedom they have won in the revolution. The sentence occurs in a report by a British general, who declares that the Russians had that belief. W'rangel, however, is said to have as his chief purpose, the de priving of the proletariat of the freedom they have won in the revolution, and to glory in the fact. The position is well summed up in the words of a Russian emigre: Oh, well, you know, Dene kine - he's nobody. \vrangel, now, is a gentleman. \nhen he gets the command - which he will - we'll join. Another said: Denekine! Pooh! Vvrangel that's the man! Denekine, he's a fool. Wrangel knows how to handle the mujik. When he comes in, it will go like wild fire. Then we shall be rich, rich again. And these insolent peasants and imperti nent shopkeepers will be put in their place. If Wrangel, indeed, is fighting to restore the old order, his early defeat is to be anticipated. If, however, he shows by his actions that his sole object is to overthrow the Bolshevik Govern ment, whilst leaving the people their new found independence, then he will secure the support of all those who do not find the present regime good, but'have hitherto seen no alternative which would secure to them the fruits of the revolution. If he gets this support, he will probably triumph. But he will never get it if he is surrounded and supported by the old nobility.
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