New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-29
~ OES the shape Of ones head
and the matter Of race
have anything to do with

ones receptiveness to Boil
shevism? Frederick Adams Woods,
lecturer on biology at the Massa-
chusetts Institute of Technology,
Believes that it has, and points to
history to prove that, comparatively,
there has been little anarchistic
leanings in the Nordic race. To
quote from his article in s'The Jour-
nal Of Heredity":
as the Anglo-Saxon temper by
nature averse to Bolshevism? Let US
hope 50. Do the facts of history help
US to sustain such belief? By and
large it would seem that they do.
Bolshevism, while it is not anarchy In
theory, leads to anarchy and to that
extent Is comparable with anarchistic
periods in the past. These are all we'll
known and recorded in our histories
and it is certainly not without interest
and probably not without profitable
suggestion to examine medieval and
modern European history from broad
point Of view and see If there is any
notable predisposition toward or
against anarchy that can be identified
with racial differences.
"Race is, of course, neither identical
with language nor with nationality.
Yet anthropologists all recognize, as
distinct from the Slavic and from the
Latin or Mediterranean, an Anglo-Teu-
tonic or Nordic race Scandinavia,
northern Germany, Denmark, Holland
and Great Britain are to be considered
as the present chief abiding places of
this Nordic race--tall, blonde, dolicho-
cephalic, enterprising and masterful,
with capacity for organization and
practical thought.
These statements need not involve
such controverted matters as the rela-
tive superiority of different races or
questions of migration and mixture.
At least the Russian peasant is differ
ent racially from the Dane or the Eng
lishman Of the same social class, and
oul 4~est;on is whether the history Of
the cA.af No-dic countries is differ
ent from the history Of Russia, the
leading Slavic country, in the amount
of anarchistic tendency revealed.
"No material has been collected for a
wide comparison including all the
Slavic nations, but, so far as Russia is
concerned, it would seem that long De-
RODS of anarchy are nothing new, as
the following instances prove. These
are all taken directly from condensed
estimates which were compiled for The
Influence of Monarchs,' and are pub
lished in the appendix to that work to
show the varying material conditions
OF fourteen European countries. They
were not made with any idea Of a study
In proportionate anarchism.
In Russia, beginning with the minor
1ty OF Ivan ", 1888, there were nine
years OF intrigues, uprisings and dis
orders. The Tartars harried the ON.
plre, and the state treasury was plum
dered. Treasons and conspiracies
marked the brief period, April 13 to
June l, 1905. In 1906, for four years
until 1910. general confusion again
reigned. Russia was invaded by tn.
Poles, and the Tartars plundered the
border.
"ln 1910 an interregnum commenced.
with anarchy for two years, followed
By the expulsion Of the Poles. Civil
disorder, however, continued until 1913.
The public treasury was again plum
dered, "a in the previous century.
Again during the minority Of Ivan and
his brother, Peter the Great, 1852 to
1859, occurred another period Of con-
fusion and massacres. Russia during
the eighteenth century was chiefly un-
der the domination of Peter the Great
and Catherine the Great, and there
were no notable periods Of anarchy.
The above is not presented as a
profound and accurate historical inves-
tigation into Russian anarchism. These
periods were not, Of course, entirely
devoted to absolute lawlessness. To
measure them intensively would be a
iong-drawn-out labor. But these words
and these descriptions are undoubtedly
such as will describe tho periods to
which they were attached. They are
merely the phrases used by standard
historians and here reproduced just az
found No modifying or ameliorating
clauses have been omitted"
Now we may survey the history
of the Nordic races by way Of COM
parison:
Now, II we turn to a summary of
'7s history Of England during similar
period &c. 14s1--c. 1so1) We find that
'nsre are no periods in which the word
snsrchy IL used by historians as ap-
eneaois TO description Of the con-
n