This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1921 edition. Excerpt: ... chapter xxiv the soviet'S peace terms and the "fourteen points" through months of discussion the Russian Socialists have been gradually clarifying their ideas as to how to end the war, and now these crystallize in a body of instructions (nakaz) to the delegate who is to be sent to the proposed ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1921 edition. Excerpt: ... chapter xxiv the soviet'S peace terms and the "fourteen points" through months of discussion the Russian Socialists have been gradually clarifying their ideas as to how to end the war, and now these crystallize in a body of instructions (nakaz) to the delegate who is to be sent to the proposed conference among the Allies at Paris. The Central Executive Committee names Skobelev, Menshevik and formerly Minister of Labor under Kerensky, as its delegate, but, as the Inter-Allied Conference fails to convene, the peace program of Russian democracy does not come before the world. It is an interesting fact that, although this program has taken form as early as October 19th, it shows much agreement with the famous "Fourteen Points," which President Wilson offered the world as his basis for peace in an address to Congress on January 8, 1918, eighty-one days afterward. Below are the proposals of the Soviet leaders and beside them are printed for comparison the substance of the corresponding points of the American President. The Soviets The President The new treaty must be public in regard to the problem of the aims of war. The treaty must be constructed on the principle: "Peace without annexations and indemnities on the basis of the right of nations to self-determination." Territorial Problems (1) The removal of German troops from the occupied Russian territories must be an absolute condition of peace. Russia gives complete self-determination to Poland, Lithuania, and Latvia; (2) Turkish Armenia receives complete autonomy and later, also, the right to self-determination after local government is established there and international guarantees have been created; (3) The Alsace-Lorraine problem mus
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