The Russian Mephistopheles

Hunterberg Max 1883-

Sujets

• Statesman
• Soviet Union
• Constantin Pobiedonostsev
• Jews

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• Publié par: les_archives_du_savoir
• Nombre de lectures: 11
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 10 Mo

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throne and our Russia (pa-ye 31).holyTHE RUSSIAN
MEPHISTOPHELES.
BY
MAX HUNTERBERG.
in Russia.)(Prohibited
1909
Street.
: StockwellRAE, 137Gltigow JOHN J.%\
PREFACE.
IN readers more ac-my closelymaking
with the Russianquainted Mephistopheles,
whosenameand face the titleportrait page,
aim is not to but toamuse,my enlighten
of whothem on the this wasman,policy
for a time the behind the Czar,long power
the theidol of the Russian reactionaries,
of the ofarch-enemy Tolstoy, instigator
relentless notthirty years persecution,
of the but of in theonly Jews, every party
that for freedom andEmpire struggles
whose hand wasenlightenment, against
man who dared to his mindany speak
about the autocraticfreely holy regime.
Madam Novikov in her toOlga preface
"
PobiedonostzefTs Church and State,"
"
that Pobiedonostzeff was a man ofsays
and true to his convictions."principle,
Madam Novikov is Butperfectly right.
what kind of ? ofprinciples Principles
the dark ofages, autocracy,
and medieval "Parlia-reaction, tyranny."
the man of is themerit," says principle,
lie that dominates oursupreme political
Our children orage. grandchildren
will see the overthrow of thisassuredly
idol." These were his principles. "May
God of inthe manforbid," says principle,
"
the book that we shouldmentioned,just
condemn a man because of his faith. Let
each believe as he will." At the same
this of fairtime, however, words,speaker
caused the and exileimprisonment, torture,
of tens of thousands of Russian Protestants,
and who had daredstundists, dukhobors,
to deviatefromthe of his Orthodoxpractice
Greek Church. heFurthermore, pro-
hibited the Russian frompress publishing
on their andTolstoy's appeal behalf,
himself was excommunicated fromTolstoy
Church.the Greek
The German onlyMephistopheles
inone man's and thatwrought perdition,
oura but Russianlegend, Mephistopheles
the of three Czars and theproved undoing
curse of an Empire.