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102 PROBLEMS CONFRONTING RUSSIA
which would assure to the country order and the credit
of a civilised nation. This course should be taken as soon
as it is possible from sheer necessity, since the very solidarity
of civilised nations demands it.
It is the avowed object of Bolshevism to induce the
proletarians of all nations to make the same wreck of State
and public affairs which they have so thoroughly succeeded
in doing in their own poor stricken country. Wherever
and whenever anarchy occurs it is like a contagious
pestilence and should be extirpated lest it spread to other parts
of the world.
The present disintegration of Russia cannot by any means
be considered as of a permanent nature. It is manifestly
a pernicious growth, the outcome of the fallacies of extreme
socialism and the result of an ephemeral misunderstanding
which are bound to disappear in the light of common sense
and patriotism. This anticipation is further supported by
the fact that those provinces which availed themselves of
the " right of self-determination" broke away from the
centre of the Empire, not on account of centrifugal tendencies,
but rather owing to Bolshevist misrule. Here again the
present chaos in Russia shows no sign of being drafted into
channels of a new political structure, but, on the contrary,
distinctly bears the mark of sterility. The present
dismemberment of Russia does not, therefore, sound the
death-knell of her unity and power, but is bound to
disappear with all the follies and extravagances of the
Revolution.
The future of Russia depends entirely upon her capacity
to overcome the present internal chaos. She has lost
certain parts of her territory in her disastrous conflict with
the Central Powers, but when she finally succeeds in shaking
off the disintegrating influence of her socialistic revolution
she will be able to reinstate herself as one of the Great
Powers of the world. That she will do so may be reasonably
concluded from the purely negative turn which the
Revolution has taken. The chain of relentless destruction,
reducing Russia to a political status of ephemerality and absurdity,
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