From Autocracy to Bolshevism. By Baran P. Graevenitz. (Arlen and
Unwin. Ss. net.)—The author, a Russian officer, gives some interesting details of the bureaucratic mismanagement which led to reverses in the field. and to famine in the towns, and thus pro- duced the Revolution. He describes the fatal effect of the Rove- tutionary decrees on the Army ; he says that the cavalry and artillery were not affected so much as the infantry by the seditious agitators from Petrograd with German money and Garman spirits in their pockets. He is inclined to blame the Allies for assuming that liberty would work for good in Russia as it had done in France, and he resents the unfair charges made against the loyalty of the late Tsar. The Allies, he oonoludes, must regard the Bolsheviks as their enemies. This was generally admitted while his book was in the press.
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