The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-11-24
RUSSIA CERTAIN
TO DO HER DUTY
Separate Peace Not Likely
Says Louis Levine in
Lecture.

Until "A general and just peace is
DIR, Louis Levine. authority on Russian
life and politics, at the conclusion of
an Illuminating lecture ON Russian af-
fairs, given at the State University
last evening.
Even if Russia should not be able
to display great military activity" he
continued. her part in winning this
war will be significant in two ways.
First. she will continue to tie up a
larger part of the German army on
the eastern front. Secondly. the in
fluence OF the Russian revolution is
bound to affect Germany. 1t may take
a little longer, but when German unity
is broken and democratic impulses be-
gin to sweep the German people it
will be. more than anything else, the
result of Russian influence
Shows Causes of Revolution.
DR.. Levine, who is Il native Russian,
educated in KEW, and a well-known
authority on Russian affairs. ad-
dressed large audience. His lecture
was the fourth of a series on The
Nations at War" which is being given
throughout the state this winter by
the public service department of the
State University for the Red Cross.
DIR. Levine developed carefully the
historical and economic background of
the Russian revolution. He traced
from the dawn of Russian history to
the present the growth of revolution
airy spirit among the people, finding
in remote beginnings the reasons for
modern facts.
New Russia and the War.
A. revolution in the life OF the Rus
sian masses virtually had been cf-
fected at the outbreak of the war. said
DIR. Levine. In the face of oppres-
sion and prosecution by an antiquated
despOtism, a new Russia grew up in
the ten years after the revolution of
1906. 1t is this new Russia that en-
tered the war"
The government. he said. was auto
| cratic, but Russian participation came
largely because of threatening domes-
| tic turmoils and received the enthu-
| siastic applause of liberals, revolu-
| tionists and socialists, with few en-
ceptions."
The vast ma ajority of the Russian
people entered the war" said DR.. Le-
vine. mot to get Constantinople but
with the vague feeling that this is to
be a war of liberation
| innefieiency Hastsnsd Fall.
| Indeed, the revolution actually was
FASTENED by the inability of the autoc-
racy to prosecute the war efficiently.
Instead of being "A protest against the
war the revolution was protest
against the inefficiency of the gov
ernment. whose blunders had cost
Russia dearly in lives and territory.
"The military debacle of 1915" said
| the lecturer. was the final doom OF
Russian autocracy.
| The Rasputin scandal, r,,mors OF
n conspiracy to bring about n
separate peace and the scarcity of food
FASTENED the inevitable and gave /,
immediate success"
These facts. DIR. Levine said prove
the sympathy of the revolutionsts foi
the deep causes of war.
No Danger Of Separate Peace.
Not even the Bolsheviki want &
separate peace with Germany" h'
said. 1T is true that Russia want.
peace. Russia is exhausted. II is no
only that she has lost over 4,OO0.0O'
men: the cause Is deeper--Russia ha
not been prepared to fight moderl
war. She lacks railroads. foundries
manufactures. all that comes wit
highly developed industrialism. Rus