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Press, Volume LX, Issue 18183, 20 September 1924, Page 13

Professor Edward Alswortli Boss, the most interesting, if not perhaps the profoundest of- American sociologists, has concluded his trilogy on Eussia, the other volumes being "Bussia in Upheaval" and "The Euasian Bolshevik Revolution." While the author regards Bolshevism as an experiment which could not but end. in economic failure, he devotes much space to refuting alleged falsehoods about it circulated by its enemies, in one chapter bagging "forty-nine lies about Eussia." Professor Boss is a conservative economist who is nevertheless open to what he takes to be hints of progress afoot. He prints in italics the fact that in proportion as the land reform embodied iu turning over the great estates to the peasants is achieved '' the safer becomes the existing system of private capitalism," as '' the tillers of the soil will fight for private, property and the freedom of enterprise against industrial workers attempting to introduce communism." He declines to prophecy concerning- Eussia's future.