Endnotes

  1. Part of the famous “Sisson Documents.”

  2. See Notes and Explanations.

  3. See Notes and Explanations.

  4. See Kornilov to Brest-Litovsk by John Reed. Boni and Liveright NY, 1919.

  5. See Notes and Explanations.

  6. See Notes and Explanations.

  7. See Notes and Explanations.

  8. Members of the revoloutionary internationalist wing of the Socialists of Europe, so-called because of their participation in the International Conference held at Zimmerwald, Switzerland, in 1915.

  9. See Notes and Explanations.

  10. See Notes and Explanations.

  11. See Notes and Explanations.

  12. This was not quite candid. The Provisional Government had suppressed Bolshevik papers before, in July, and was planning to do so again.

  13. Well known in the American labor movement.

  14. (Russian Social Democratic Labor Party).

  15. See Notes and Explanations.

  16. Savage bodyguards if Ivan the Terrible, 17th century.

  17. See Notes and Explanations.

  18. “God Save the Tsar.”

  19. The Bolsheviks.

  20. By the term “conference” must be understood a meeting of the respective Committees together with delegates of committees one degree lower in rank. (Such as a “conference” of Regimental Committees with delegates from Company Committees.)