I can only say, if they are not, Democracy will prove as great a failure as czardom.
This is the strongest sign of a suspicion against the army itself; and on the army the whole power of czardom reposes.
czardom, on its part, may play out its last card by embarking upon a fresh war.
They left their home in the richest district of that new Balkan czardom about a year ago.
The power of czardom was enforced ignorance, and this made possible the infamous treaty of Brest-Litovsk.
Truly, it was not so much the force of arms as that of ignorance which kept up the czardom for hundreds of years.