La Revue politique internationale, 1915, March-April (No. 14) (Lausanne).
“Democratic Russia and the War” by M. Grégoire Alexinsky, ex-Deputy of the Duma ((pp. 168-86)).
Editorial note: “It is curious to note the solidarity which at the present time, despite all differences of principle, binds the greater part of the Russian revolutionaries and liberals to autocratic tsarism” (p. 168).
Russia (even official Russia) could not have wanted the war. Russia had been preparing for 1918, 1920? A murderer five years too early??
[p. 177: editorial note (from Alexinsky’s book): there are “two governments” in Russia.]
Russia defended weak Serbia, etc. A “good deed” (181), in spite of tsarism’s other vile actions
For the neutralisation of the Straits—not for “a war of conquest”, like Milyukov ... an Allied victory would be a boon for European progress.
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