Word: leninism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Emil Ludwig is one of the foremost writers of biography today, already known in this country for his studies of Napoleon and Wilhem HohenzoHern. In this new book, prefaced by an introduction on the writings of history, he deals with nineteen men of genius, Frederick the Great, Wilson, Bismarck, Lenin, Da Vinci, Voltaire, Rembrandt, Byron, Balzac, Shakespeare, Goethe and eight others. In this work one will find Ludwig's theory of the causes and effects of the appearance of a world genius in human society...
...follows: "The presidium deems Trotzky's and Vuyovitch's remaining in the Communist International impossible because of their violent struggle against the organization by means of underground printing plants coupled with organizing illegal centers and inciting malicious slander against Soviet Russia abroad. To preserve unity in Lenin ranks, to counteract the undermining activities of the oppositionist rebels, considering previous warnings sufficient and that to further refrain from disciplinary measures becomes dangerous and impossible, the presidium of the Communist International unanimously decided to expel Trotzky and Vuyovitch from the Communist International's executive body...
...Tsar abdictated in 1917, M. Trotzky left the U. S. for Russia, but was arrested and taken ashore by the British at Halifax and kept in jail until the Provisional Government of Russia. demanded his release. He entered Russia a few weeks later at about the same time as Lenin, with whom he worked in preparation for the famed November revolution that set the seal of Bolshevism over all the Russias. His part in preparing for the Bolshevist revolution is admittedly hardly less than that of Lenin himself, and he is regarded by some as the greater organizing genius...
Since the death of Lenin in 1924, Leon Trotzky has been pushed more and more into the background. A sick man, he was indefatiguable in support of an active Bolshevising policy designed to please the younger rank and file of the Communist Party. Old-timers like Josef Stalin and Gregory Zinoviev, remembering that Trotzky joined the party only in 1917, began to attack him as a "upstart," and after Lenin's death it was not long before he was ousted from the Commissariat of War and reduced to political impotence by his powerful enemies. Even the Communist Party disavowed...
...consensus that Leon Trotzky is the most brilliant of all the Soviet leaders, not even excepting Lenin. In stature small and unimpressive and in appearance like a university professor, he is a striking orator with a rare gift for metaphor. As an organizer, he probably has not an equal in all Russia, which is not noted for producing genius of that type. Fearlessness in debate has at once been his strength and his weakness; for by it he conquered and because of it he was conquered...