“THE GREATEST FAILURE IN ALL HISTORY”
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Books by JOHN SPARGO
“THE GREATEST FAILURE IN ALL HISTORY” RUSSIA AS AN AMERICAN PROBLEM THE PSYCHOLOGY OF BOLSHEVISM BOLSHEVISM AMERICANISM AND SOCIAL DEMOCRACY SOCIAL DEMOCRACY EXPLAINED
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“THE GREATEST FAILURE IN ALL HISTORY”
A Critical Examination of The Actual Workings of Bolshevism In Russia
BY JOHN SPARGO AUTHOR OF “BOLSHEVISM” “THE PSYCHOLOGY OF BOLSHEVISM” “RUSSIA AS AN AMERICAN PROBLEM” “SOCIAL DEMOCRACY EXPLAINED”
HARPER & BROTHERS PUBLISHERS NEW YORK AND LONDON
The Greatest Failure in all History
Copyright, 1920, by Harper & Brothers Printed in the United States of America Published August, 1920 G-U
To The MISGUIDED, THE MISTAKEN, AND THE MISINFORMED Who Have Hailed Bolshevism in Russia as the Advent of A NEW FREEDOM
I Submit a Part of the Indisputable Evidence Upon Which, as a Socialist, Who Believes in Democracy in Government and Industry—and in the Generous Individualism Which Communism of Opportunity Alone Can Give—I Base My Condemnation of Bolshevism as a Mad Attempt, by a Brutal and Degrading Tyranny, to Carry Out an Impossible Program