CHAOTIC STATE OF RUSSIA.
THE SIGNIFICANCE OF LENINISM. The chaotic state of affairs in Russia was referred to by the Hon. T. M. Wilford, in tho course of his lecture at tho Leys Institute last evening. Mr. Wilford said that Lenin's assumption of a right to _ make peace for Russia was farcical, for his party governed neither in Petrograd nor in Russia. Linin was not a pacificist, but the theorist of a world-wide war of classes. He would not set nation against nation, but class against class. Any attempt at compromise with Lenin would be useless. This class militancy divided Kerenskv from Lenin, for tho latter stood for the exclusive interest of one class, while Kerenskv stood to unite all classes. Kerenskv feared civil war, while Lenin counted on it. To-day the Bolsheviks and Geriranv had a common fear—that _ a strong Government might arise in Russia. That would mean a drain on Germany's forces on the western front, and an earlier collapse than would otherwise eventual®*
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LV, Issue 16924, 9 August 1918, Page 5
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