of all that is working against us, Russia will be a
better place to live in than anywhere else in Eu-
rope. But we have a bad time to go through.
And not we alone. The effects of the war are
scarcely visible as yet in the west, but they will
become visible. Humanity has a period of tor-
ment before it. . . ."

" Bucharin says fifty years," I said, referring
to my talk of yesterday.

"Maybe. I think less than that. But the
revolution will be far worse for you nations of the
west than it has been for us. In the west, if there
is revolution, they will use artillery at once, and
wipe out whole districts. The governing classes
in the west are determined and organized in a way
our home-grown capitalists never were. The
Autocracy never allowed them to organize, so,
when the Autocracy itself fell, our task was com-
paratively easy. There was nothing in the way.
It will not be like that in Germany."

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