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SOVIET RUSSIA al

Official Organ of the

Russian Soviet Government Bureau

VOL. I.

JUNE-DECEMBER, 1919

NEW YORK

THE RUSSIAN SOVIET GOVERNMENT BUREAU

1920

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"Soviet Russia," which began publication on June 7, 1919, replaced another weekly publication of this Bureau, "The Weekly Bulletin of the Bureau of InInformation of Soviet Russia." This weekly information bulletin was first published on March 3, 1919, and continued to appear regularly for thirteen weeks, the last issue (Number 13) appearing the 26th of May. During the three months of the appearance of the earlier publication, which was intended as a sort of news service for the use of periodicals, it became apparent to the Bureau that a publication of wider scope was necessary in order to communicate all the important official and other material concerning Soviet Russia that was at the Bureau's disposal.

The present volume includes thirty weekly issues of the periodical which was the result of the above consideration. It contains as much official information as has been accessible to this Bureau; unfortunately, in the earlier issues, this material is of very fragmentary nature, often having to be obtained from badly distorted versions of official texts appearing in other periodicals. As the publication progressed, however-and the reader will be able to verify this statement by comparison with the material in this volume-the sources began to flow more freely and there was a consequent improvement in the material printed in "Soviet Russia." This improvement, it is hoped, will be a progressive one, and we believe that the issues of "Soviet Russia" in the year 1920 will be superior to those included in the present volume.

When "Soviet Russia" began to appear, the Soviet armies had just begun their work of clearing Russian territory of the counter-revolutionary hordes of Kolchak and Denikin, and had already made serious advances toward the Ural mountains. During the lifetime of this weekly, Siberia has been almost entirely regained for the Russian people by Soviet armies and loyal guerilla forces, and, at the present writing, the Russian Socialist Federal Soviet Republic is one of the permanent and stable nations of the world.

Of course, the main object of "Soviet Russia" has been the presentation. of the truth about the country which this Bureau represents. It may seem trifling therefore to speak on this occasion of matters of almost pedantic interest, and yet, the story that "Soviet Russia" has to tell has been already.

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