Excerpt from Open Gates to RussiaIN putting forward this volume upon the prob lems of relationship with Russia, in her reconstruc tion, in the interest of a rounded friendship and many-sided co-operation between the people of Russia and America, the writer wishes to acknowl edge his indebtedness to the following books of refer ence, for information supplementary and corrective to that drawn from personal experience and con~ versations with Russians upon which the chapters are mainly based: Russia from the Varangiaus to the Bolsheviks, Beazley, Forbes, and Birkett, The self-discoveryzof Russia, Simpson, Bolshevism, Spar go, Russia of Yesterday and To-morrow, Baroness Souiny, self-government in Russia, Vinogradoff, Russia and Democracy, Wesselitsky, Commercial Russia, Beable.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.