“THE GREATEST FAILURE
IN ALL HISTORY”

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

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

To The
MISGUIDED, THE MISTAKEN,
AND THE MISINFORMED
Who Have Hailed Bolshevism in Russia as the Advent of
A NEW FREEDOM

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

“THE GREATEST FAILUREIN ALL HISTORY”

To TheMISGUIDED, THE MISTAKEN,AND THE MISINFORMEDWho Have Hailed Bolshevism in Russia as the Advent ofA NEW FREEDOM

“THE GREATEST FAILURE
IN ALL HISTORY”

To The
MISGUIDED, THE MISTAKEN,
AND THE MISINFORMED
Who Have Hailed Bolshevism in Russia as the Advent of
A NEW FREEDOM