“This is a summary of bolshevist utterances, made with a view to showing what the real aims of the bolshevist leaders are. The official documents and decrees, the speeches of Lenine and other leaders, the published opinions of Maxim Gorky, acclaimed as the greatest Bolshevist writer, are the chief sources from which Mr Walling has drawn in formulating this ‘A B C of Russian bolshevism.’ Mr Walling assumes that the public wants to know ‘what the bolsheviki actually stand for—according to a fair summary of their own acknowledged words and deeds.’”—R of Rs
“The book should do much as an antiseptic against the bolshevist poison.” A. W. Small
+ Am J Soc 26:250 S ’20 130w Am Pol Sci R 14:739 N ’20 60w
“Scattered material makes it better for reference than for straight reading. No index.”
+ − Booklist 17:56 N ’20
“His encyclopædic labours would be more convincing if it were not for his careless habit of misquotation and of quoting isolated sentences which when placed in their context convey a far different meaning.” Harold Kellock
− Freeman 1:620 S 8 ’20 300w
“Granted that all of his conclusions are supportable, Mr Walling’s method of establishing the case is far from satisfactory. What is needed at this time is less political opinion and more economic facts.” W. E. Atkins
− + J Pol Econ 28:710 O ’20 900w