A TYPICAL VILLAGE PRIEST: RUSSIA 



What the attitude of the Ukrainian Government will be in matters of religion is as yet 

 conjectural. The revolutionary movement throughout Russia as a whole has been anti-clerical. 

 The Russian peasant, however, is innately devout. 



Photographs by Nevin O. Winter 



the: great stacks op straw pept apter threshing: Ukraine 



It was the vast, grass-covered steppes which first attracted the roving Cossacks to the 

 Ukraine. These same steppes, when put under cultivation, yield bountiful harvests of wheat. 

 It was on Ukrainian grain that Germany expected to feed her millions after the treacherous 

 treaty of Brest-Litovsk, which was designed to dismember the Russian Empire and leave it 

 helpless in the hands of the despoilers. 



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