Abstract

Dies Irae

This article presents information on book "Autocracy and Revolution in Russia," by Baron Sergius A. Korff. A correct appraisal of autocracy as a cause of the Russian revolution prompted Baron Sergius A. Korff to devote his attention primarily to the interpretation of the autocracy of Czardom. His findings are embodied in the present volume, which is a close version of a series of six lectures he gave before the students of Northwestern University. He elaborates his theme in the first four chapters which represent as many outstanding elements of the subsequent Russian dies irae. Ruthless autocracy, handled by the class of the bureaucrats created particularly for this purpose, aided or supervised, as the case may be, by a degenerate aristocracy, necessarily brought its own negation.