Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Revolution in the Baltic Provinces of Russia: A Brief Account of the Activity of the Lettish Social Democratic Workers' Party
The readers of this volume will require some assurance that its almost incredible chapters of persecution, torture and murder have been written by one who speaks from personal experience. That assurance can be given most unhesitatingly.
The author, who, for obvious reasons, must remain anonymous at present, was one of the founders of the Social Democratic Workers' Party in 1897. This Party fell under the ban of the Government. As is told in this book; the leaders were arrested, but the author managed to escape to England where he established a clandestine printing press to which he makes reference in his story. Since then he has visited Russia several times and has had hairbreadth escapes. Once he was discovered and arrested. He lay for eighteen months in jail and was then exiled to Siberia.
On the frontier, however, he managed to V escape and found his way back to England. He was in the Baltic Provinces during both the revolution and the punitive expedi tion of General Orloff, in 1905, which he describes.
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