Excerpt from The Psychology of Bolshevism Revolutionary Communism is 'a menace to civilization. It is an ironic fact, providing food for deep and serious thought, that the end of the great world war has brought mankind not peace, but only a more difficult and serious conflict. The Peace Treaty signed at Ver sailles remarkable as documentary historical evidence of the complete failure of the most ambitious and arrogant militarist scheme in history - does not really mark the return of peace to a war-weary world, but a new align ment of mankind for a war even more ter rible. Every organized nation, with its cul ture, its laws, its arts, and its institutions-its civilization, in a word - is menaced by a new form of despotism and terrorism. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.