BOLSHEVISM IN RUSSIA.

Colonist, Volume LXI, Issue 15040, 7 April 1919, Page 3

BOLSHEVISM IN RUSSIA.

THE ROAD m COLLAPSE.

_ Bolshevism has made rapid progress in! Russia since the signing of the armis- ' face, thanks largely to the coUapse of the i German Empire, which encouraged the Bolsheviks to redouble their efforts Iheir persistent propaganda, as it now appears, was assisted by the Germans +h! rS V 6f sW V- ho yen'SVite ready to run the risk of being involved in the flood if y playing with Bolshevism, they could send it on its way westward. During £he last two months (says a London paper of February's date) there haY been Bo? s \?v: t C°T derable «»"*»«£«ftSBolshevik Government. Russia has pTbhcsi fOUl> Federal 1. Commune of the North 2. Commune of the West." 3. Central Commune. ,4. Commune of, the Volga. • I The first is composed of the Govern-' mencs of Petrograd, Archangel, Viatka ?±? da * Partrf «he- Government of Pbv ok Novgorod, Tcherepovetz and Olonetz - the second comprises the Governments of Vitebsk, Smolensk, and Pskov; the third the Governments of Moscow Orel, Koursk,- Toula,Tver, Niini-Novgo-rod, Voronege: the fourth" those of Kazan, Simbirsk, Saratov, and Perm. lUch town is provided with its Council or Deputies and Its Commission for lighting counter-revolution, sabotage and speculation. Each district, besideV has its Council of Deputies (Sovdep) and to Extraordinary Commission. These institutions direct all local affairs but they are all subject to the authority of the Central Executive Committee which sits at Moscow. The Pan-Russian Extraordinary Commission against counterrevolution, etc., also sits., at Moscow. The members of these bodies are supposed to bo elected by the Pan-Russian

Congress of workmen, peasants, Red Guards, sailors, and Cossack deputies. Foreign affairs are under the exclusive management of George Chitcherin. The Central Committee is composed as follows : Lenin, President; Trotsky, Military and Naval Commissary; -Cllitcherin, loreign Affairs; Spiez, Commissary of itabour- Podrovski, Interior (ex-Profes-S? T- tf'f^tory at Moscow); Loxmatcharski, Education; Nevski, Commissary of Koads and Communications (a former engineer at the Ministry); Ulianova Ijemn s wife, Social Assistant; Stoutchka Justice (formerly a Deputy of the Petrograd Tribunal) ; Tziouroupa, Minister of Food; Bontch-Brouevitch, Business Manager.