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(Continued from page 268.) The majority of Russians to-day feel that there can never be a return to the old regime if the present Soviets should be subverscd. A somewhat shadowy but none the less interesting alternative is suggested by M. Malevsky-Malevitch in A New Party hi Russia (Routledge, 3s. 6d.), and his essay is well worth the attention of those who want to know what some modern Russians, at any rate, think of the future of their . country. The author abhors the Communists and has a firm faith that their rule will be replaced by a Christian Empire

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