tories, which in its turn is due to the impossibility
of bringing fuel and raw material to Petrograd.
A very large proportion of Russian factory hands
have not, as in other countries, lost their connec-
tion with their native villages. There was al-
ways a considerable annual migration backwards
and forwards between the villages and the town,
and great numbers of workmen have gone home,
carrying with them the ideas of the revolution.
It should also be remembered that the bulk of
the earlier formed units of the Red Army is com-
posed of workmen from the towns who, except
in the case of peasants mobilized in districts which
have experienced an occupation by the counter-
revolutionaries, are more determined and better
understand the need for discipline than the men
from the country.

The most noticeable thing in Petrograd to any-
one returning after six months' absence is the
complete disappearance of armed men. The town
seems to have returned to a perfectly peaceable
condition in the sense that the need for revolu-
tionary patrols has gone. Soldiers walking about
no longer carry their rifles, and the picturesque

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