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Kun, Béla, 1886-1939. Revolutionary essays - Image 45. 1920. Special Collections, University of Houston Libraries. University of Houston Digital Library. Web. June 22, 2018. https://digital.lib.uh.edu/collection/scpamp/item/662/show/654.

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Title	Revolutionary essays
Series Title	International socialist library, 15
Creator (LCNAF)	Kun, Béla, 1886-1939
Publisher	British Socialist Party
Place of Creation (TGN)	London
Date	1920
Subject.Topical (LCSH)	Socialism
Subject.Geographic (TGN)	Austria Hungary
Genre (AAT)	pamphlets
Language	English
Type (DCMI)	Text
Original Item Extent	46 pages; 18 cm.
Original Item Location	HX256.K84
Original Item URL	http://library.uh.edu/record=b8304436~S11
Original Collection	Socialist and Communist Pamphlets
Digital Collection	Socialist and Communist Pamphlets
Digital Collection URL	http://digital.lib.uh.edu/collection/scpamp
Repository	Special Collections, University of Houston Libraries
Repository URL	http://libraries.uh.edu/branches/special-collections
Use and Reproduction	This item is in the public domain and may be used freely.
File Name	index.cpd

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Title	Image 45
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File Name	uhlib_1028723_044.jpg
Transcript	Hungary is such that there is little hope of governing by means of a Parliamentary ministry, and without an open dictatorship. And from the open dictatorship of the capitalist class, it is not a long step to the open dictatorship of the proletariat. The Foster Child of Monarchy. ("Pravda," July 20th, 1918.) During the great French Revolution, the guardian of the principle of legitimity, of the principle of monarchy, was the Holy Roman Empire, as it was then—the Austrian Empire, as it is now. At the present time that part is being played by Germany. All the present German Chancellors, whatever their name, strive to act up to the role of Metternich, the Austrian Chancellor of that time. But there is a fundamental difference between Germany now and the Holy Roman Empire then. The German Empire does not intend to reinstate the old dynasties; it founds new dynasties, setting on the throne its own representatives. The first such attempt has taken place in the Ukraine. In the person of Skoropadsky there is, in effect, at the the head of the State a Viceroy, with all the characteristics not of a constitutional but of an autocratic monarch. The question is whether Germany intends to set on the Ukrainian throne one of the "unemployed" still remaining Romanovs, or a German prince. The Romanovs would possibly find some adherents in the ranks of the Black Hundred; but the revolutionary movement in the Ukraine displays the necessity for a "completely reliable' German monarch, who would not under any circumstances show hesitation in crushing opposition. We have seen the same picture in Finland. The former Grand Duke Cyril Vladimirovitch, a scion of the Romanov house, was amongst the spectators when, in the Parliamentary arena, the Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin was proclaimed King. In Finland, just as in the Ukraine, the restoration of the monarchy represents not merely the rehabilitation of the general principle of Monarchism, but the (43)