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Although now convinced that the Communism or "Democracy" of Stalin "every month brings the Soviet state closer in essence to the fascist states of Italy and Germany," Mr. Lyons of the sweated East Side remains an apostle of radicalism. "The Leninist-Trotskyist-Stalinist methods of revolution . . . when history's record is clearer," will serve, he thinks, "chiefly as an object lesson how not to make revolutions...
...neatly made-over barn overlooking the Hudson River at Croton. N. Y., live merry Trotskyist Max Eastman (Enjoyment of Laughter) and his husky Russian wife, Eliena Krylenko. whose brother is a Stalinist.* While white-maned Mr. Eastman works at his witty scribbles, blonde Mrs. Eastman teaches dancing, paints. After studying in Moscow, in Paris and under Manhattan's Jean Charlot, she has done capable portraits of most of her friends except her husband, whom she thinks she has yet to paint successfully...
...Lazar Moiseyevich Kaganovich was furiously turning the Soviet coal industry upside down last week. He fired both Ivan Fesenko and Zhuravlev, respectively the chief and assistant chief of the coal industry for "failing to clean up the last vestiges of sabotage by wreckers and thus, in effect, assisting the Trotskyist-Bukharinist wreckers in their contemptible work." According to Comrade Kaganovich, he will now reshuffle coal's whole personnel, consistently give better jobs to younger workers...
...there are equal rights for women, all of which makes the Soviet Constitution the most democratic in the world." The Constitution guarantees freedom of the press in the U.S.S.R.. but last week the big Moscow newsorgans continued to print no details of Russia's current series of "Trotskyist" executions. For this major news correspondents still had to comb copies of local Soviet newsorgans as these reached the capital. Neither in Moscow nor in any other office of the world-wide Soviet official news agency Tass could information be had about the Director of Tass, Jacob Doletsky...
Whatever the Dewey investigation might prove in the end, there was no doubt that it had shown Leon Trotsky, for eight years an exile in Turkey, France and Norway, a disowned and virtually impotent revolutionist, to be now the most important revolutionary extremist in the world. In 1933 Trotskyist followers in Russia, seeing the gradual abandonment of all plans for the world revolution by orthodox Stalinists, asked secretly for what they called the Fourth International. No one took this seriously until July 1936, when the Fourth International set up a committee in Paris. Most observers, many Communists still belittle...