A CHANGED RUSSIA.
The greatest figure in Rifeua to-day (says "Anglitcbanin," in the "Contemporary'') Is fhat of the (Russan peasant, though hitherto he haA counted least in the actions of the country as a whole; and with the more representative, government that is promised Ru , .s..ria by the events of the past few months his word in tho councils of the State- w-11 have a weight it has never had before. But the Hussion peasant is not a warrior by instinct, and when this war is over he will throw his we'ght on tho side of the peace-loving nations. There, is no ground for the fear that Ru's'f.ia, i ! f she wins, will become a swashbuckler among the . nations, nursing such ambitions .as '• .those, which, sine:.; 1870, have made Geimany a menace, to the peace of Europe. As in England and France, so in there has been a sudden imity of all parties, and to-day we find much of the Red Cross organisation in the hands of revolutionaries, ■who were in the habit of having their homes continually searched by the police. It in a changed Russia-.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WAG19141229.2.18
Bibliographic details
Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 29 December 1914, Page 4
Word Count
187A CHANGED RUSSIA. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 29 December 1914, Page 4
Using This Item
National Media Ltd is the copyright owner for the Wairarapa Age. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of National Media Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.