Word: soviets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Parents attending a local Soviet meeting at Leningrad, last week, voted in the proportion of 7 to 3 that it is right to destroy imbecile infants...
Acting as Chairman of the "Red Menace" last week, and preserving strictest order was Comrade Nikolai Bukharin. Today he is right-hand henchman to Dictator of Soviet Russia Josef Stalin, many of whose speeches he is believed to write. Pounding for order in parliamentary fashion, Chairman Bukharin announced the following agenda of subjects for discussion: 1) Reiteration of the program of world revolution. 2) Encouragement of Communism in nationalist China and India. 3) Defensive measures against the wars being planned by Capitalism. 4) Encouragement of revolt movements in all colonies held by imperialistic powers. 5) Inspection of the condition...
Keenest excitement kindled over the last agenda item. It flung on the carpet the major issue of contemporary Russia-the issue between Soviet Dictator Josef Stalin and the great Communist whom he has exiled (TIME, Jan. 23, 30), famed Leon Trotsky, creator of the Red Army. Stalin stands for the more reactionary and Trotsky for the more revolutionary elements among Russian Communists. Stalin and Trotsky both claim to be the "intellectual successor" to the late Father of the Soviet Union, Nikolai Lenin, whose words are still the guiding oracles of Soviet policy. Stalin has triumphed over Trotsky and his chief...
...testament of Lenin referred to by Exile Trotsky constituted Lenin's intellectual last will and legacy to the Soviet Union; but has been suppressed in Russia by Dictator Stalin because it contains the following damning passage: "Comrade Stalin, having become general secretary, has concentrated an enormous power in his hands; and I [Lenin] am not sure that he always knows how to use that power. . . . "Stalin is too rough, and this fault, entirely supportable in relations among us Communists, becomes insupportable in the office of general secretary. Therefore I propose to the comrades to find a way to remove...
...impotency of the Internationale to take any disciplinary action against Stalin results from the tremendous influence he exerts through the Communist party of Soviet Russia of which he is nominally "secretary" and actually "boss." Russians are forever reminding Englishmen who protest against the world propaganda of the Third Internationale that when James . Ramsay Macdonald was Prime Minister of Great Britain (Jan.-Nov. 1924), he continued to act as Secretary of the Second (Socialist) Internationale of which the Third (Communist) Internationale was originally a faction until it split off and achieved independence under Nikolai Lenin. The First (Radical) Internationale was organized...