"The Greatest Failure in All History" / A Critical Examination of the Actual Workings of Bolshevism in Russia

Books by JOHN SPARGO
“THE GREATEST FAILURE IN ALL HISTORY” RUSSIA AS AN AMERICAN PROBLEM THE PSYCHOLOGY OF BOLSHEVISM BOLSHEVISM AMERICANISM AND SOCIAL DEMOCRACY SOCIAL DEMOCRACY EXPLAINED
HARPER & BROTHERS, NEW YORK Established 1817
“THE GREATEST FAILURE IN ALL HISTORY”
A Critical Examination of The Actual Workings of Bolshevism In Russia
BY JOHN SPARGO AUTHOR OF “BOLSHEVISM” “THE PSYCHOLOGY OF BOLSHEVISM” “RUSSIA AS AN AMERICAN PROBLEM” “SOCIAL DEMOCRACY EXPLAINED”
HARPER & BROTHERS PUBLISHERS NEW YORK AND LONDON
The Greatest Failure in all History
Copyright, 1920, by Harper & Brothers Printed in the United States of America Published August, 1920 G-U
I Submit a Part of the Indisputable Evidence Upon Which, as a Socialist, Who Believes in Democracy in Government and Industry—and in the Generous Individualism Which Communism of Opportunity Alone Can Give—I Base My Condemnation of Bolshevism as a Mad Attempt, by a Brutal and Degrading Tyranny, to Carry Out an Impossible Program
J. S.
Like the immortal Topsy, this book may be said to have “just growed.” In it I have simply assembled in something like an orderly arrangement a vast amount of carefully investigated evidence concerning the Bolshevist system and its workings—evidence which, in my judgment, must compel every honest believer in freedom and democracy to condemn Bolshevism as a vicious and dangerous form of reaction, subversive of every form of progress and every agency of civilization and enlightenment.