mind: that
while most of the Russian peasants have no landed property
exceeding five deshatin, and three millions have no land at all,
every Cossack owns forty deshatin, an unfair distinction which is
constantly being referred to in all discussion of the land
question. This is a sufficient ground for the isolated position of
the Cossacks in the Revolution, and it was for this reason also
that they were formerly always among the most loyal supporters of
the Tsar.

Extremely characteristic of the feeling at the front are the
following details:

At the sitting on May 30 of the Pan-Russian Congress, Officers'
Delegates, a representative of the officers of the 3rd
Elizabethengrad Hussars is stated, according to the _Retch_ of May
1, to have given, in a speech for the offensive, the following
characteristic statement: "You all know to what extremes the
disorder at the front has reached. The infantry cut the wires
connecting them with their batteries and declare that the soldiers
will not remain _more than one month_ at the front, but will go
home."

It is very instructive also to read the report of a delegate from
the front, who had accompanied the French and English majority
Socialists at the front. This report was printed in the _Rabocaja
Gazeta_, May 18 and 19--this is the organ of the Mensheviks, i.e.
that of Tscheidse, Tseretelli and Skobeleff. These Entente
Socialists at the front were told with all possible distinctness
that the Russian army could not and would not fight for the
imperialistic aims of England and France. The state of the
transport, provisions and forage supplies, as also the danger to
the achievements of the Revolution by further war, demanded a
speedy cessation of hostilities. The English and French Socialist
delegates were said to be not altogether pleased at this state of
feeling at the front. And it was further demanded of them that
they should undertake to make known the result of their experience
in Russia on the Western front, i.e. in France. There was some
very plain speaking, too, with regard to America: representatives
from the Russian front spoke openly of America's policy of
exploitation towards Europe and the Allies. It was urged then that
an international Socialist conference should be convened at the
earliest possible moment, and supported by the English and French
majority Socialists. At one of the mee