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Of the Russian Revolution Onment and Exile Under the Czar, London in the Early Negotiations Over It Was Alexis Ivanovitch Rykov Who by J Leaders-Not “Heroes”-of the Russian Revolution onment and exile under the czar, London in the early negotiations over It was Alexis Ivanovitch Rykov who By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. spent some time in the United Stateß the question of British recognition. succeeded Lenin as the president of is well that Nov. 7, the anniver- immediately preceding the Council of People’s Commissars. the revolution, • • • sary of the Russian Bolshevik vic- but returned to Russia at the first op- This was the unanimous decision of IT we find tory, falls so quickly upon the period portunity to help build the Soviet Re- In England with Litvinov the Central Executive Committee and Leonid Krassin, who managed of the American national elections. It public. once ratified the action of the All-Russian gives workers in this country, who • • s the great Putilov factory and was con- Soviet Congress. most engineers • • • have been won to the reading of Com- sidered one of the able We hear more and more of Christ- great power munist literature, an opportunity to in Russia. He was a in But these are all comrades engaged ian Rakovsky, who was the president reconstruction. compare the “heroes” of American pol- Russia’s early days of in the work of the Soviet government. of the Ukraine, now mentioned as the the comrades more ac- itics, puny and colorless, with the in- • • • There are also Soviet ambassador to Paris, since spiring personalities of the men and tive in the Communist International French recognition 'ht Soviet rule. There are plenty of other men of women—the leaders—who carried to like Gregory Zinoviev, president of Louise Bryant wrote of Rakovsky great ability in the Soviet foreign of- victory the standards of the Russian the Petrograd Soviet, but also the that he reached any important fice, who run rings around the diplo- workers’ and peasants’ struggle for never head of the Communist World Party decision consulting Lenin mats of capitalist countries. Another emancipation. without —the Communist International. Rakovsky outstanding figure • • * • • • comes from the Balkans, is Michael Kara- having Bulgar- khan, carrying such been born in the little who has been on Karl Radek is declared to be one of „ In his little pamphlet on “Lenin: ian town of Kotel. Driven from one successful work in the orient, es- Communism’s best propagandists. He The Great Strategist of the Class country to another under the whip of pecially with Japan and China; not to has been for a long time head of the War,” we find A Losovsky, secretary reaction, he has, since the Nov. 7th rev- overlook the great achievements of Soviet propaganda bureau. Red International of Labor Un- of the olution, in 1917, represented the work Joffe. • • • ions, heading of his- chapters, “A • • • one era and peasants of Soviet Russia ir Nikolai Bucharin, another powerful Leader, Not a Hero.” other lands. While president of the But there are not only men com- Communist writer, is the editor of the There were those who wanted to Ukraine he was also a member of the rades in Russia’s foreign service. Al- official organ of the Russian Commun- up Lenin as a “hero of the deck mass- Executive Committee of the Commun exandra Kollontai, veteran of the Rus ist Party, the Pravda. es,” in the efTort to disprove the ma- ist International. sian revolutionary movement, the * * • terialistic conception of history. But is. • • • Soviet representative at Christiania, George Steklov is the head of the Lenin the leader of his class; not was the capital of Norway. She spent editorial staff of the Izvestia, the of- its hero, Losovsky points out in reply. Os course, at the head of the Soviet foreign office, in Moscow, is Gregory much time in exile in Germany while ficial organ of the Russian Soviet gov- * * • Vassilievitch Tchicherin. Tchicherin the czar still ruled in Russia, but re ernment The same is true of all the other • • • is deeply serious his work that turned immediately following the in- comrades of the Russian Soviet revo- so tn he could not, on one occasion, see the ception of the revolution. These are only a few of the lead- lution whose names are becoming — humor of American capitalist ers—not “heroes” of the Russian more and more familiar to toilers in an news- • * * paper publishing a fake interview with Soviet revolution. They are of the every land. Moissaye J. Olgin, who has just re- Lenin, discussing everything from the revolution. They sprang from the vic- * * • Russia, says Irish problem to the Russian ballet. turned from Soviet that torious struggle of the masses of op- There is Michael Ivanovitch Kalin- tried tell him Anatol agairist This Tchicherin comes from one of someone to that pressed the capitalist reaction. in, the peasant president of the Soviet Lunacharsky, the Soviet minister of ed- the oldest and most aristocratic fam- Under the dictatorship of the prole- Republic, the second president under ucation, was just figurehead ilies of the days of the czar. But he a in the tariat, the transition stage towards Soviet rule. He selected for this was has been guiding successfully for workers’ and peasants' government. Communism, multitudes of such lead- position when Sverdlov died of the But jOlgin later learned that this years the foreign affairs of the Bolshe- in- ers are rising to take up the new typhus a in 1918. Kalinin has bean vik Republic. formant was an anti-Bolshevik and tasks—the building of the Communist connecting link between the city and • * • spent his time in denouncing, in a society. The workers in all other land workers. similar manner, all Soviet officials. lands may well pnvy the workers and %•* * * Side by side with Tchicherin, we Lunacharsky holds that illiteracy was peasants of Soviet Russia their lead- Leon Trotsky is still the Soviet min find Maxim Litvinov, who worked with Russia's greatest curse under the czar ership. ister of war. He is the head of the Lenin since the Russian Communist and he is working to wipe it out as This is something for the hero- Red Army. Trotsky is the man of Party was created up to the time of rapidly as possible under the Soviel worshiping American workers to look action, the originator, the organizer the latter’s death. Litvinov was one rule. Reports indicate that he is suc- into on this Seventh Soviet Annlver- He was born in 1877, suffered impris- of the Soviet representatives sent to ceeding very rapidly. sary. I Seven Years of Triumphant Soviet Rule the efficient German military machine taire—the capitalist imperialist ring of I Moscow shows inestimable progress By JAY LOVESTONE. was the Prussian junker-capitalist al- : iron and fire thrown around Soviet in the rebuilding of agriculture in the Workers’ and Farmers’ Soviet liance forced to seek an end of hos- Russia in order to break the backbone Soviet domains. Red Russia is build- Not international THERepublic, the Union of Socialist tilities. until the allied imperial- i of Communism. ing a huge air fleet and increasing the Soviet Republics, is now entering up- ists began to dread the rising Soviet Last Imperialist Attack Shattered.. effectiveness of its revolutionary power on its eighth year. were they compelled to consid- November 7, 1921: The fourth birth- army. Tremendous headway is being er The years of foreign invasion, the even an armistice. day! The victorious Red Army has made in the reconstruction of indus- years war, succeeded in sweeping into try. of famine and the years of Soviet Republic Crushes Intervention. oblivion economic blockade are at an end. The the imperialist counter-revolutionary Communist Russia Triumphant. enemies of the working and farming November 7, 1919: The second lackeys. The Kolchaks, the Yuden- birthday! masses of Soviet Russia have been de- The countless efforts of itches, the Wrangels and the horde of November 7. 1924: The seventh an- world imperialism camouflaged and feated. Communism is increasing its lesser hooligans have all been smash- niversary! The Union of Socialist inspired by Wilson, to over- strength rapidly. Woodrow ed by the workers' and peasants’ Red Soviet Republics is triumgjiant. Im- throw the Soviet Republic have been The economic chaos wrought by the Army. The American working men perialist France, the arch enemy of decisively crush by prowess war and czarist-capitalist inefficiency the of the are beginning to demand peace with Soviet Russia, the essence and incar- Red Army. While the Russian work- the ruin of industry and agriculture Soviet Russia. American soldiers nation of capitalist hostility to the ing and farming under the coming in the wake of counter-revo- masses stationed in Murmansk and Siberia first workers’ and farmers’ Soviet Re- leadership of their Communist Party lutionary insurrection and sabotage mutiny. Reactionary Poland is forced public, recognizes the bankruptcy of putting the stifling of economic progress thru were to rout their enemies at to give up its war against the Soviet its anti-Soviet policy. The French abroad, the imperialist blockade—are all at home and the social-democrat- Republic. The Kronstadt revolt, the government is compelled to extend un- ic leaders European an end. in other coun- last flicker of counter-revolutionary conditional de Jure recognition to the serving hangmen Ignorance, illiteracy, oppression, tries were as the of hope, is extinguished. Union of Socialist Soviet Republics. their was economic backwardness, exploitation proletariat. It the traitor At least nineteen capitalist govern- social-democracy of Gremany Vanquishing the Famine. —these are, more and more, happily ous that ments have been forced to confess the Spartican becoming bygones for the Russian drowned the revolution and November 7, 1922: The fifth anni- failure of their campaigns against the that aided and abetted the overthrow versary! imperialists, working and farming masses.
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