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CONTENTS
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the Middle Classes—Trotzky on Breaking the Will of the Intellectuals—Red Terror Urged by Lenin against Recalcitrant Socialists—Wholesale Execution of Hostages Officially Admitted—Membership of all Non-Bolshevist Parties a Crime against the Soviet State—The All-Embracing Activities of the Extraordinary Commission for Administering the Red Terror—Terrorism against Agricultural Rebels—Terror against the Red Army?—Terrorism against Labor and Trades Unions—The Extraordinary Commission in Action against the Leaders of the Agrarian Party—The Red Terror the Measure of Desperation of a Dwindling Minority

49–71
CHAPTER V
Slavery and Compulsory Labor
Syndicalism Abandoned—The Code for Slave Labor—Militarization of Labor—Factory Dictators—Lenin Defends Industrial Autocracy—Compulsory Labor the Foundation of the Soviet Structure (Trotzky)—Labor Armies—Compulsory Labor to Last a Generation—Compulsory Over-time—Communist Labor According to Lenin—An American Witness—Difficulties of Labor Revolt 72–87
CHAPTER VI
Persecution of Organized Labor—Trade Unions
Free Trade Unions Abolished—Compulsory or Governmental Trade Unions—Fictitious Membership—The Trades Unions Subordi-