Russia. No. 1 (1919).
RUSSIA. No. 1 (1919).
A COLLECTION OF REPORTS
BOLSHEVISM IN RUSSIA.
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| No. | Name. | ---- | Date | Subject. | Page |
| Foreword | vi | ||||
| 1 | Sir M. Findlay (Christiania) | Telegraphic | Aug. 19, 1918 | Arrest of British subjects in Petrograd and Moscow | 1 |
| 2 | E. Howard (Stockholm) | Telegraphic | 19, | Armed raid on British consulate-general at and arrest of British officials and other persons | 1 |
| 3 | R. Paget (Copenhagen) | Telegraphic | Sept. 3, | Murder of Captain Cromie by Soviet troops. Informs of telegram from Petrograd | 2 |
| 4 | R. Paget (Copenhagen) | Telegraphic | 9. | Wholesale arrests and executions in Petrograd as a result of attempts on Bolshevik leaders. Arrest of Mr. Lockhart. British subjects starving in prison | 2 |
| 5 | Mr. Lindley (Archangel) | Telegraphic | 6, | Murder of Captain Cromie. Tribute to services which he rendered | 3 |
| 6 | Sir M. Findlay (Christiania) | Telegraphic | 17, | Arrest of British subjects in Moscow. Report by Netherland Minister on their present condition, and his efforts to obtain their release. Funeral of Captain Cromie. Letter appealing for help from British imprisoned in Fortress of Peter and Paul | 3 |
| 7 | Mr. Alston (Vladivostock) | Telegraphic | 16, | Report of murder of ex-Emperor of Russia | 7 |
| 8 | Sir C. Eliot (Ekaterinburg) | Oct. 5, | Informs of events leading up to the murder the ex-Emperor and other members of Imperial family. Transmits letter from tutor of Czarevitch | 8 | |
| 9 | Mr. Alston (Vladivostock) | Telegraphic | Nov. 4, | Discovery of corpses in mine-pit at Alapaevsk of members of Imperial family. Fate of other members | 11 |
| 10 | Mr. Lockhart | 10, | Oppression by Bolsheviks of their opponents, including Socialists, abolition of right of holding public meetings, suppression of all but Bolshevik press, and of all liberty. General terrorism | 11 | |
| 11 | Report by Mrs. L ______ | Nov., 1918 | Peasants and the land. Industrial conditions. Repression of all non-Bolsheviks. Conditions in the prisons | 12 | |
| Report by Mr. H ______ | Nov., 1918 | Conditions in factories at Moscow. Trade conditions generally. Anti-Bolshevik feeling among peasantry | 14 | ||
| Report by Mr. G ______ | Nov., 1918 | Report on the internal situation. Growing discontent under Bolshevism | 18 | ||
| Report by Colonel Kimens | Nov., 1918 | Report on the internal situation. Chaos and anarchy in the provinces. Confiscation of private property | 20 | ||
| 12 | Mr. Lindley (Archangel) | Telegraphic | Nov. 27, 1918 | Comments on Bolshevik of ideas of society. Their strength lies in unlimited supply of paper money Bolsheviks should be treated like pariahs | 21 |
| 13 | Sir C. Eliot (Ekaterinburg) | Telegraphic | 29, | Murder of ex-Empress of Russia and children supposed to have been committed about the same time as the murder of the ex-Emperor | 21 |
| 14 | Lord Kilmarnock (Copenhagen) | 27, | Conditions in a factory in Petrograd | 22 | |
| 15 | Memorandum | Report of a British subject on conditions in Moscow. The “cold terror" | 23 | ||
| 16 | Mr. Alston (Vladivostock) | Telegraphic | Jan. 2, 1919 | Starvation and terrorism in Moscow. Wholesale murders and atrocities | 24 |
| 17 | Mr. Alston (Vladivostock) | Telegraphic | 3, | Dangers of famine in Europe if Bolshevik disorganisation continues | 24 |
| 18 | Mr. Alston (Vladivostock) | Telegraphic | 5, | Details of atrocities committed at Perm | 25 |
| 19 | Major Reilly (Chitral) | Telegraphic | 7, | Arrival of Russian refugees from Kharog. Murders by Bolsheviks at Tashkent | 25 |
| 20 | General Poole | 8, | Bolsheviks employing Chinese to kill officers and their families | 26 | |
| 21 | General Poole | 11, | Methods of Bolsheviks to allay hostility abroad while campaign against the social and economic life at home continues, Treatment of women | 26 | |
| 22 | Mr. Alston (Vladivostock) | Telegraphic | 14, | Torture and murder in Ural towns. Murder of priests | 26 |
| 23 | General Knox (Omsk) | Telegraphic | 15, | Conditions at Perm. Russians obliged to join Bolsheviks to avoid starvation | 26 |
| 24 | Mr. Alston (Vladivostock) | Telegraphic | 18, | Mutilations and tortures at Perm. Report of member of Red Cross Mission. Mutilations and massacres of Czechs in Ussuri district and of educated class in Kief | 27 |
| 25 | Colonel Wade (Warsaw) | Telegraphic | 19, | Chinese and Corean bandits increasing in Bolshevik forces | 28 |
| 26 | Mr. Alston (Vladivostock) | Telegraphic | 23, | Conditions in Perm. Bolsheviks a privileged class free to commit crime against other classes. Murder of a bishop. Closing of churches | 28 |
| 27 | Lord Kilmarnock (Copenhagen) | 21, | Bolshevik Central Committees absorbing all power. In Moscow and Petrograd starvation making the people physically incapable of resisting. Mobilisation of peasants. Severer discipline and continuance of executions | 28 | |
| 28 | Mr. Alston (Vladivostock) | Telegraphic | Feb. 1, | Murder and mutilation of a British workman in Northern Urals | 29 |
| 29 | Mr. Alston (Vladivostock) | Telegraphic | 2, | Terrorism at Lisva. Efficiency and energy of Bolshevik régime | 29 |
| 30 | Mr. Alston (Vladivostock) | Telegraphic | 4, | Revolt of peasants against Bolsheviks in Vyatka district. Their subsequent execution and execution of their families | 30 |
| 31 | Memorandum | Interviews with two British subjects from Moscow. Conditions in Moscow schools, factories, and shops | 30 | ||
| 32 | Lord Kilmarnock (Copenhagen) | 3, | Paralysis of the people in Petrograd and Moscow. Bolshevism losing its hold as its supply of food decline. General apathy in the country | 32 | |
| 33 | Mr. Alston (Vladivostock) | Telegraphic | 8, | Small percentage of pro-Bolsheviks among peasantry in Ekaterinburg district. Russian working classes not represented by Bolsheviks, most of latter being Jews. Murder of labourers owing to non-support of Bolshevism | 33 |
| 34 | Sir H. Rumbold (Berne) | 5, | Conditions in the Ukraine. Letter from a Polish lady respecting Bolshevik reign of terror | 33 | |
| 35 | Lord Kilmarnock (Copenhagen) | Feb. 6, 1919 | Bolshevik atrocities in Esthonia … … | 34 | |
| 36 | Mr. Alston (Vladivostock) | Telegraphic | 11, | Report from Acting British Consul at Ekaterinburg as to conditions there for past year | 37 |
| 37 | Memorandum | Interviews with two British subjects returned from Petrograd in January. Bolshevik oppression of the peasant proprietor. The Red Army. Dissatisfaction of workmen. Treatment of the middle classes. Oppression of Socialist parties on the ground of their being “counter-revolutionary.” Bolshevik plans for world revolution | 38 | ||
| 38 | General Knox (Omsk) | Telegraphic | Feb. 5, | Murder of Imperial family. Further details | 41 |
| 39 | Mr. Alston (Vladivostock) | Telegraphic | 10, | Bolshevik persecutions and crimes at Ekaterinburg. Reports evidence of witnesses. Oppression of clergy | 41 |
| 40 | Mr. Alston (Vladivostock) | Telegraphic | 13, | Murder of Grand Duke Michael at Perm. Methods adopted by Bolsheviks against merchants | 42 |
| 41 | Mr. Bell (Helsingfors) | Telegraphic | 12, | Murder of Russian Grand Dukes in Peter and Paul fortress at Petrograd in January 1919 | 42 |
| 42 | Consul-general Bagge (Odessa) | Telegraphic | 13, | Danger of famine in the Ukraine. Peasants beg for assurance that their property in land be declared inviolable before they will commence sowing seed | 42 |
| 43 | Sir C. Eliot (Vladivostock) | Telegraphic | 19, | Increasing desertions from Red Army and insurrection of peasants. Massacre of priests at Osa, and of officers at Menzelinsk | 43 |
| 44 | Sir C. Eliot (Vladivostock) | Telegraphic | 22, | Details of seventy-one murders and mutilations perpetrated at Ekaterinburg during 1918 | 43 |
| 45 | Sir C. Eliot (Vladivostock) | Telegraphic | 24, | Details of further murders in Ekaterinburg district | 44 |
| 46 | Sir C. Eliot (Vladivostock) | Telegraphic | 24, | Appeal of Omsk Government to Democratic parties to unite against Bolsheviks | 44 |
| 47 | General Knox (Vladivostock) | Telegraphic | Mar. 2, | Report from Omsk. Conditions of railway transport. Wholesale issue of paper money. Bolshevik discipline stricter. Measures against religion | 45 |
| 48 | General Knox (Vladivostock) | Telegraphic | 4, | Ruin in Moscow : treatment of women, atrocities and mutilations in Eastern Russia | 45 |
| 49 | Sir C. Eliot (Vladivostock) | Telegraphic | 5, | Bolshevik crimes in Perm. Torture of women and murder of priests in Omsk districts | 45 |
| 50 | Sir C. Eliot (Vladivostock) | Telegraphic | 21, | All classes continue to come to the British Consulate at Ekaterinburg with evidence of murders and outrages. Reports show terrible extent of murder and pillage | 46 |
| 51 | Report by a British Chaplain at Odessa | Jan. | Bolshevik tyranny in South Russia in 1918 | 47 | |
| 52 | Report by Mr. M ______ | 12, | Food conditions and prices in Moscow | 48 | |
| 53 | Lord Kilmarnock (Copenhagen) | Feb. 17, | Report on Bolshevik atrocities in Esthonia. “Blood bath in Walk” | 49 | |
| 54 | Report by Mr. K ______ | Conditions in towns and country. Growing feeling among working classes against Bolsheviks. Religious revival | 50 | ||
| 55 | Report by Mr. J ______ | Conditions around Moscow and in Vladimir Government. Disorganisation on railways. Apathy amongst anti-Bolshevik classes resulting from their treatment : their indifference to all but food questions Punishment of families of officers who Refuse to join Bolshevik army. Disease in Moscow. Private trading abolished | 52 | ||
| 56 | Report by Rev. B. S. Lombard | Results of Bolshevism in Northern Russia | 56 | ||
| 57 | Memorandum | Interviews with returned British subjects | 57 | ||
| 58 | Memorandum by Mr. B ______ | Jan., 1919 | Progress of Bolshevism in Russia | 64 | |
| 59 | Memorandum by Mr. B ______ | Mar., | Present position of Bolshevism | 67 | |
| 60 | Memorandum | Jan., | Appreciation of the economic situation in Russia | 69 | |
| 61 | Report | Telegraphic | Mar., | Anti-Bolshevik outbreaks | 77 |
| Appendix | Extracts from the Russian press. | 79 |
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