Excerpt from The Russian Pendulum: Autocracy Democracy Bolshivism There IS some subtle mystery about Russia which makes? Discussion of its affairs passionately bitter. We are able to disagree about France or Fiume Without losing our temper. But difference of opinion about Russia distils a peculiar venom. This was very noticeable to me over there. Disagree ments were all passionate and personal. I attributed it to nearness to the problems and perhaps to some infectious ness in the excessive partisanship which the Russians bring to their political controversies. But since I have returned to America I find it just as noticeable here. The subject of Russia turns dinner-table discussions into brawls, turns old friendships into feuds. 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.