Russia - Her Strength And Her Weakness

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Kolthoff Press

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491_9781406768107

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RUSSIA HER STRENGTH AND HER WEAKNESS A STUDY OF THE PRESENT CONDITIONS OF THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE, WITH AN ANALYSIS OF ITS RESOURCES AND A FORECAST OF ITS FUTURE BY WOLF VON SCHIERBRAND, PH. D. AUTHOR OF quot GERMANY THE WELWNG OF A WORLD POWER quot 41 THE KAISER S SPEECHES, quot etc., etc. PUBUSHED FOR THE BAY VIEW READING CLUB GENERAL OFFICE 165 BOSTON BOULEVARD DETROIT, MICH. BY G. P. PUTNAM S SONS NEW YORK LONDON PREFACE WITH the considerable number of books on Russia extant, it may well be asked why the present work was written. The answer to that must be be cause, so far as the author knows, no previous mono graph is in existence either covering the same ground or dealing in the same spirit with the subjects discussed. It has been the author s main object in this book to lay bare, without bias either way, the sources and ex tent of both Russia s strength and weakness, and to do so on the most reliable and most recent data and au thorities. How far he has been successful in this must be left to the reader s own judgment. In the book it self it is pointed out that the searcher after truth is labouring under peculiar difficulties in dealing with facts concerning Russia. These difficulties have been overcome so far as that seemed humanly possible. But no claim for infallibility has been set up here. Indeed, on many minor points the author is open to correction . It is not believed, however, that any indulgence is necessary in the case of the main contention made in this book, namely, that by pursuing for another con siderable length of time the present policy of foreign aggression and utter disregard of internal needs, Russia is 011 the road to national perdition. 6 2 2 i O iv Preface The chief factors standing on the one side for Rus sia s territorial expansion, and on the other for the present state of calamitous decay of internal resources, have been carefully and calmly considered one by one. It seems to the writer certain that the conclusion which he has arrived a

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