Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-03-01
DISCUSSES PROGRESS
OF RUSSIAN REVOLUTION
Nicholas Alcinikoff Makes Striking
Address ut the Jcfrcr-
son Club.
HOPE FOR RUSSIAN DEMOCRACY
Reviews Various Steps Leading to
Downfall Of CARBON, and Says
Prescnt-Day News From Russia Is
Being Distorted.

Nicholas AlcnikoT. of New York. for
the past forty-siN years identified with
the Russian revolutionary movement
and prominent member of the New
York bar. delivered an inspiring Ice
ture on The Social Birth Pangs OF
the Russian People" to an apprcciative
audience in the auditorium of the JEFF
fcrson Club. at $3.50 o'clock last night.
Mr. AleinikoT. as one who had long
studied Russian social ideas and ten
denotes and having had excellent OPP
portuniticS thoroughly to acQuaint
himself with the psychology of these
people. described vividly the pcrsccu-
ton that had been their hapless lot.
and reviewed the history of the rero-
lutiorary movement.
The revolutionary movement OF the
Russian people, he said, "is n drama
composed of series of acts. The first
of these acts was the removal Of the
Eodlincss of Gear Alexander IL. AS
soon as the superstition of the Russian
pcasantry began 10 vanish with the
realization that the Gar did not rule
them by reason of Divine right. then
the revolutionary spirit took fire and
spread broadcast over the Russian fed
Grafton.
REVIEWS STEPS LEADING
TO GLARS DOWNFALL
I'm 1905 tho removal of the manli-
ness of the supreme ruler when he or
dered shot the peasants and others OF
Russia who darcd ask supplication at
his feet, created the second act of this
drama. and last March the removal
from the throne of the Gar himself
was the third and final act that tore
up from the minds of r.. Russian peas
antry the last of the superstitious roots
Of tho divinity Of czardon."
The speaker told how the autocratic
factions OF the government. before the
revolution, had kept the peasants in
ignorance, and had impressed upon
their superstitious belief that the Gear
vas the enlightened messenger of
Russia. Now instead OF the autocrats
there are fifteen different Socialist
factions which participated in the last
election"
The term Boishevik. that has been
applied to the Socialist is a misnomer."
he declared. land instead of it Maxi
malist should be substituted. That is.
one who constantly strives TO reach
forth and grasp the greatest things for
the establishment OF republic" He
further said that at the time OF the
assassination of President Garfield the
Russian Socialists sent to this republic
a message of coincidence, denouncing
the act OF the anarchist that would
attempt to overthrow rcpublicanism.
ACTUAL CONDITIONS IN
RUSSIA NOT FAIRLY TOLD
Continuing. Mr.. Aleinikoff said. THE
actual conditions in Russia have not
been correctly presented by either Bcr-
lin or London dispatches. In these
cities they have been terribly dis
colored, and the same has been true of
the metropolitan papers of this coun-
try. All that the Russian republicans
get from them Is abuse This however
is not we'll founded. as can be seen by
brief resume Of what has been &C
complished by them during the past
six months.
During this time the army of Rus
STA has been reduced from 81 TO 40 per
cent; 5000 GyEinasiums schools. public
buildings for the education OF the
masses have been established, where
every wounded soldier brought from
the front is employed as teacher. All
the while their work has been hindcrcd
by various attempts of the counter