Word: stalins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most Popular Red. In Russia the political setup has now come to such a pass that production of the Soviet Encyclopedia of Literature has been halted, Soviet history books printed only recently have been withdrawn from the schools by order of Stalin, and a dispatch last week announced that the Commissariats for Education were expected to put some old Tsarist history books into Russian pupils' hands again. Reason: Soviet educators can agree that the Tsarist history books are wrong, cannot agree that any history of Russia written since the Revolution is even approximately right, and cannot find an eminent...
Today few U. S. citizens are louder in praise of Joseph Stalin than that emotional but influential lecturer and journalist, Dr. Anna Louise Strong. Yet on Sunday, May 24, 1925, she wrote in the New York Times: "Now that Lenin is dead, Leon Trotsky remains the most popular man in the Soviet Republic. . . . Russia's best organizer . . . Trotsky is more popular throughout Russia not only than any other man but than the whole of the Central Committee" of the Communist Party whose General Secretary was then, as now, Joseph Stalin...
...able correspondent Arno Dosch-Fleurot, who long served the New York World, was on the spot in Russia during the Revolution and has written: "While the faces of many individuals in the rush of events remain in my memory, I cannot remember even having seen Kamenev, Zinoviev or Stalin then. Later they and lots of people blossomed out, but in the days of 'do or die' there was just one big figure-TROTSKY." Lenin in the hottest days for Reds had skipped out of Petrograd (now Leningrad) to the safety of Finland...
Today when Soviet newsorgans mention Trotsky they never do so except in hysterically abusive terms which flatly contradict the facts of 1917. It is now Stalin who in those days of do or die largely made the Revolution, though the Dictator with becoming modesty calls himself "only the disciple of Lenin...
...whole Soviet generation is growing up to idolize Stalin-and dead Old Bolsheviks tell no tales. It is a fact that of the 1917 Communist Quintet (Lenin, Trotsky, Zinoviev, Kamenev and Stalin) who won the Revolution and later became the undisputed masters of Russia, only Stalin and Trotsky have escaped death...