The Russian Turmoil. By General A. I. Denikin. (Hutchinson. 24s.
net.)—General Denikin's memoirs of the Russian Revolution cover the short but memorable period from March to August, 1917, and end with his arrest. He describes dearly, and on the whole dispassionately, the rapid and complete collapse of the Russian Army, which became a mob of madmen. He shows how the Kerensky Government, through cowardice, allowed themselves to be terrorized by the Bolsheviks in German pay into overturning the discipline of the Army. It is a most painful story, but the facts deserved to be placed on record. The Socialists who destroyed the Army have had their reward, for they have found the new Bolsheviks more cruel to them than the old Tsars were. Moreover, the Bolsheviks have re-established rigorous discipline in the ranks of the Army and have restored the death penalty, which the feeble Socialist demagogues had abolished. The book ends with General Denikin's arrest at the orders of Kerensky. It is pitiful to think of all that Russia and Europe might have been spared had the Revolution been wisely directed in 1917.
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