Boris Alexandrovich Bakhmeteff Quotes
The governing class has become a privileged aristocracy, acting at its own discretion. It has little in common with the Communist workman who remains at his bench. The latter cannot escape the influence of his surroundings; he breathes the same air as the striker and the unemployed. In consequence a powerful protest has arisen from below. The Communist work-men demand actual participation in the government; they wish equality within the party; they wish freedom of discussion and a free press.
There was much democratic pressure from the Russian workers in the decade after the Russian Revolution. This was brutally suppressed by Stalin Immediately after the Russian Revolution, the provisional government appointed him as Ambassador to the United States. However, the provisional government was supplanted when the Bolsheviks took over. Not enamored of Communism, he stayed in the United States with many other Russian refugees.
Boris Alexandrovich Bakhmeteff, 1880-1951, Ambassador of the Russian Provisional Government to the United States, Engineer, Educator & Businessman, “Russia at the Cross-Roads”, Foreign Affairs, March 1924
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