Evening star., 1918-08-04
Ukrainian Peasants Revolt Against Bolsfeviki
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These developments in the CkrainG
are significant in their bearing on
the general economic policy of the
bolshevfki and Of Germany. The nel-
shevikf assumption was that fifteen o..
twenty disMembered parts would ~
as strong as a single entity when r.
came to dealing with other powerR.-
Socialized industry in q great axricui-
turai country such as Russia meant
socfalfzed agriculture and socia fized
agriculture in fifteen or twenty sepa-.
rate entities allows no such thing az
unity Of action =,
Instead of central government to
control the resources of the country
as whole and to secure markets for.
its surplus products by trade agree
ments, every productive region such
az the Ukraine has to depend upon IT.
self for the production and ON thA
goodness of big countries, such As.
Germany. for a market for its prod
ucts. 1t was admitted that before this
policy could be wholly applied inter-
nationai socialism would have to be-
abolished. 1t is possible that the
polshevik leaders sincerely believed
that their so-ealled principes would
make hAedway in Germany and that
International industrialism would be
the basis of intercourse among ma
tions.
Assuming that they were sincere
fanatics. the development In Ger
many and Hungary. must have joIted
them oat Of their Confidence. In the
nrst place, Austro-Hungary gave
notice that while SIZE wanted Ukara-
fnfQn wheat n be
the war because OF the deficiency in
her own prod retien. she did not pro-
pose to have Ukrainian wheat on any
terms after tho war. The reason was
that In normal times Austro-Hun-
gary produces more wheat than she
own people. And Germany. too, un<
der peace conditions, never was q
large importer OF Russian wheat. The
bufk OF the crop went out to the
Black sea nations. which are now at
war with Gerranv. Under the bolslne-
v1k principles the Industrial policy
OF de Witte by which Russian fn-
dnstrfcs were established has NO
place. With the vast country split up
into Independent units there could be
and trade policy.
Poland, which under the de witte
policy had become an Industrial bee
hive, was lost to Russia even before
tne czara government was ever
thrown Its textile mills and its
solid foundation for an independent
Poland. Independent economically az
well as politically. But Moscow stfll
remained as the principal city Of the
boisheviki Russia. and Moscow fs
very largely an Industrial city. II has
numerous mills and factories. The
bolshevtki in their trade agree
nnents, so FAR as anything has been
disclosed. offered no objection I'd
Germany's control of Moscow's In
dnstries. This meant that when her
factories needed raw cotton they
would get such raw cotton as could
pc obtained from Russia before the
MOSCOW factories got any.
Such raw materials as Germany
wanted to unload on Moscow the fac
tories Of that city would be Compelled
to take at German prices because the
bslsheviki trade agreements would
put other countries at a disadvantaxe
in supplying the raw material that
Germany produced The holsheviki. In
their belief that Industrial socialism
would be fnternationaIfzed, possibly
could afford to look with contempt en-
mere details Of this kind, but the
Wofkmen In the factories in time Will
come to take a different view of It.
However. IN the Industrial as wen as
the political anarchy prevailing in
the bolshevtk Russia these subjects
are not so acute ss the food cues
ton.
The bolshevfki economic program
as applied to the Don region is said to
be working out more satisfactorily to
Germany than in any other section. ID
In there that the great coal deposits
lie, and 1t is in southern Russia that
the iron ore is found. The bolshevfkf
simply turned these resources over to
Germany, to do what she chose with
them. 1t docs not appear, however.
that Germany as yet has been able to
do much In the way Of reorganixinx
and restoring to a productive basis
the Russian iron and steel industry,
The Don Cossacks have never nc.
cepted the claim Of the bolsheyfki ef
the right to dispose of their country.
and, unlike the Ukrainians. they haT&
not n . body allowed separate gov.
ernment to be set UP and to deliver T. .
self to Germany. At some points close
to the Black sea the Germans. 1t In re-
ported. have been able to make head
way and they are in control of same
Of the local industries Yet, in IT'S en 9
tirety. the bolsheviki program of eeo>
nomfc vassalage to Germany has not
yet become effective in the Don res
gion-'
In the Caucasus. where the maaS
E1neae deposits are, the Germans are.
said to be able to obtain the man,
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