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ROUTLEDGE LIBRARY EDITIONS: EARLY WESTERN RESPONSES TO SOVIET RUSSIA

Volume 12

NEW RUSSIA

NEW RUSSIA

ANATOLE DE MONZIE

First published in French in 1931 under the title Petit Manuel de la Russie Nouvelle
First published in Great Britain in 1932 by George Allen & Unwin Ltd

This edition first published in 2018
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1932 English Translation George Allen & Unwin Ltd

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ISBN: 978-1-138-04993-2 (Set)
ISBN: 978-1-315-11072-1 (Set) (ebk)
ISBN: 978-1-138-08488-9 (Volume 12) (hbk)
ISBN: 978-1-315-11161-2 (Volume 12) (ebk)

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NEW RUSSIA

by

ANATOLE DE MONZIE

Translated by

R. J. S. CURTIS

LONDON
GEORGE ALLEN & UNWIN LTD
MUSEUM STREET

The French original, Petit Manuel de la Russie Nouvelle, was published in Paris in 1931.

FIRST PUBLISHED IN ENGLISH IN 1932

All rights reserved

DEDICATED TO

MONSIEUR EDOUARD HERRIOT

IN MEMORY OF THE TELEGRAM OF OCTOBER, 1924, IN WHICH
FRANCE OFFICIALLY RECOGNISED THE U.S.S.R., AND
ALSO IN TOKEN OF A FRIENDSHIP WHICH
HAD ITS ORIGIN IN THE BITTER
SORROWS OF THE YEARS
19251926

TRANSLATORS NOTE

The translation of has been carried out by Mr. John Peile. The translator is indebted to Mr. N. Scarlyn-Wilson, author of The French Classic Age, etc., and to Dr. H. B. Vaughan-Evans, Barrister-at-Law, for their valuable aid on technical points.

There is only one possible position from which a picture can be judged correctly. From any other viewpoint it will be inevitably either too close, too far away or will be seen from a wrong angle. In the arts of drawing and painting, perspective settles the question. But who will settle what is the proper viewpoint to adopt towards matters pertaining to truth and morals?

PASCAL

I do not believe in peace begotten of ignorance. If the world is some day to enjoy an era of tranquillity, it will only be after a period of mutual understanding. Goodwill may perhaps suffice to keep men in a state of brotherly love, according to Our Lords promise; but strife between nations will only be prevented by the growth of knowledge.

The League of Nations can never hope to be anything but a league of intellects. Before it takes up its functions as world arbiter, as in due course it surely will, it must exercise a universal, magisterial sway and put the teaching of history in the forefront of its programme.

For countries which owe their origin to the War, or which bear its scars, now need to identify their interests, to reveal themselves under hitherto hidden aspects, to disclose the conditions of their new existence, together with the peculiar difficulties which hamper them: to co-operate in examining the universal conscience, to weigh accumulated bitternesses, consider treasured aspirations: to appraise anew their individual strengths, resources and possibilities. It would seem that an up-to-date Baedeker, which treats fully of European revolutions, is now an indispensable aid to the performance of civic duties; or, more particularly, there is a real need for a series of handbooks or guides to national psychology to which people anxious to find a way to truth through the tangle of personal recollections may have reference.

I had hoped that handbooks of this type would have been written and published under the direction of the Institute of Intellectual Co-operation, or even by that body itself. I imagined that the Institute would in this manner have found a way to carry out one of its main objects and to fulfil the definite wish expressed on this question in the French Chambers, which in 1925 gave the Genevan scheme its full protection. But our great men are distrustful of undertaking the building of cathedrals or the compilation of encyclopaedias; the taste for synthesis conforms ill with our critical mentalities.

I have therefore, with the slender means at my disposal, attempted to write a fragment of this general handbook of contemporary history, which I judged a worthy task for the combined labours of our greatest men; and I have chosen as my theme the explanation of revolutionary Russia, which is the most urgent problem of modern times, if not the most difficult, since the scope of our interests must embrace the sum total of human experience if we are to understand it.

The frontier of the realm of Law, said Michelet, remains where it was in the Middle Ageson the Vistula and on the Danube. But beyond this frontier of conformity live 160 million beings trembling with impatience or moaning in anguish. The moral obligation to seek after knowledge does not end where the power of the Lawour Western Lawstops short. Whether Russian youths are squinting, greedy-eyed Asiatics or not, whether Russia seeks her destiny in Asia to overcome Europe by way of the East or follows some other plan, that cannot alter the logical fact that Europe is forced in her own interests and for reasons of self-preservation to gain an understanding of the present regime in that one-time empire of the Tsars, now the abode of permanent revolution. In his Instructions sur la paix, Bourdaloue, speaking of peace towards ones neighbour, recommended that not too much importance should be attached to the literal meaning of the phrase

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