... , soldiers desert disillusioned with the war, and the peasants are using violence to get the land they have right for. The general situation is quickly deteriorating. Peasants, notorious for their lethargic impassivity, became strangely impatient. It appeared that they had been affected by the propaganda of the Social Revolutionaries and the Bolsheviks. In retrospect it is easy to say that the ... ...

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