Word: stalinism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...youth and ominous "past" of Dictator Josef Stalin of Soviet Russia are kept shrouded in perpetual mystery by his iron censorship of all Soviet information sources. The very names of his wife and child are well-guarded secrets. Stalin dwells in the seclusion of an Oriental Potentate, because, say his friends, his parents were Asiatic and the reticence of the East is his birthright. Naturally the enemies of Comrade Stalin tell another story...
Last week the "other story" was told at length by the Berlin newspaper Tageblatt, a renowned Independent organ. The Tageblatt's informant, one Essad Bey, a purported friend of Stalin's youth, wrote...
...poor saloon on the outskirts of Baku, near the factory quarters, one could meet a badly dressed young man with crooked nose, low forehead and coal-black hair. He was a Georgian, the publisher of the workmen's paper. He called himself Koba, Nischeradse, Tschischikov, Ivanovitsch, and, lastly, Stalin. His real name was Josef Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili...
...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...