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require an unusual degree of energy on the part of “Young
Siberia” to overcome monopolism and corruption, and the
hopeless ignorance and barbarism of the masses, and to
push the development of the country forward to the point
of being able to compete with other nations, or at least to
stand alone. That Mr. Yadrintseff was fully conscious of
the great difficulty of the task is evident from the following
words of his:—
“Siberia is not North America. There it is only
necessary to build a railroad through the wilderness in
order to call into being a flourishing cultural development.
Siberia, on the other hand, with its lack of enterprise and
competent labour must stick to the old methods, and its
new means of communication are to be considered, not as
the commencement of a new civilisation, but rather as
aids to a half-effete and sterile cultural system already
existing." [1]
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