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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Crisis in Russia by Arthur Ransome: civil war as on a struggle between two political ideas, for the
Whites have no definite idea. I have considered it simply as
a struggle between the Russian Government and a number
of mutineers." Precisely so do these "bourgeois" technicians
now working throughout Russia regard the task before them.
It will be small satisfaction to them if famine makes the
position of any Government impossible. For them the
struggle is quite simply a struggle between Russia and the
economic forces tending towards a complete collapse of
civilization.
The Communists have thus practically the whole
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