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At the present time the Allied armies in Russia — American troops among them — are supporting three ‘Governments’, which are said to be ‘supported by the majority of the Russian people’ (whoever they may be), have one characteristic in common; they stand for the return of Tsardom. So that the Allies, who started out with the scarcely-disguised intention of ‘restoring the Constituent Assembly’, and thus setting up a bourgeois Republic, now find themselves in the position of gendarmes of the Counter Revolution.
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Homberger, E., Biggart, J. (1992). They Are Still There!. In: Homberger, E., Biggart, J. (eds) John Reed and the Russian Revolution. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-21836-3_27
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