The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 5, 1924, Page 12

= By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. T is well that Nov. 7, the anniver- sary of the Russian Bolshevik vic- tory, falls so quickly upon the period of the American national elections. It gives workers in this country, who have been won to the reading of Com- munist literature, an opportunity to compare the “heroes” of American pol- itics, puny and colorless, with the in- spiring personalities of the’ men and women—the leaders—who carried to victory the standards of the Russian workers’ and peasants’ struggle for emancipation. ees In his little pamphlet on “Lenin: The Great Strategist of the Class War,” we find A Losovsky, secretary of the Red International of Labor Un- ions, heading one of his. chapters, “A Leader, Not a Hero.” There were those who wanted to deck up Lenin as a “hero of the mass- es,” in the effort to disprove the ma- terialistic conception of history. But Lenin was the leader of his class; not its hero, Losovsky points out in reply. es The same is true of all the other comrades of the Russian Soviet revo- lution whose names are becoming more and more familia? to toilers in every land. ** ¢ There is Michael Ivanovitch Kalin- in, the peasant president of the Soviet Republic, the second president under Soviet rule. He was selected for this position when Sverdlov died of the typhus in 1918. Kalinin has been a connecting link between the city and land workers. Koes Leon Trotsky is -still the Soviet min- ister of war. He is the head of the Red Army. Trotsky is the man of action, the originator, the organizer. He was born in 1877, suffered impris-|of the Soviet representatives sent to} ceeding very ee Leaders--Not “Heroes”--of the Russian Revolution onment and exile under the czar, spent some time in the United States immediately preceding the revolution, but returned to Russia at the first op- portunity to help build the Soviet Re public. eee We hear more and more of Christ- jan Rakovsky, who was the president of the Ukraine, now mentioned as the Soviet ambassador to Paris, ‘since French recognition ‘6f Soviet rule. Louise Bryant wrote of Rakovsky that he never reached any important decision without consulting Lenin Rakovsky comes from the Balkans, having been born in the little Bulgar. ian town of Kotel. Driven from one country to another under the whip of reaction, he has, since the Nov. 7th rev- olution, in 1917, represented the work ers and peasants of Soviet Russia ir other lands.’ While president of the Ukraine he was also a member of the Executive Committee of the Commun- ist International. e¢e¢ es Of course, at the head of the Soviet foreign office, in Moscow, is Gregory Vassilievitch Tchicherin. Tchicherin is so deeply serious im his work that he could not, on one occasion, see the humor of an American capitalist news- paper publishing a fake interview with Lenin, discussing everything from the Irish problem to the Russian ballet. This Tchicherin comes from one of the oldest and most aristocratic fam- ilies of the days of the czar. But he has been guiding successfully for years the foreign affairs of the Bolshe- vik Republic. * {the great Putilov factory and was con- AE eA RARE be SEA URANUS EE SBOE NS BAe NEAT A SURETY ASIN CEES IIE FSI A ER ARISE London in the early negotiations over the question of British recognition. It was Alexis Ivanovitch Rykov who succeeded Lenin as the president of the Council of People’s Commissars. This was the unanimous décision of the Central Executive Committee and ratified the action of the All-Russian Soviet Congress. s In England with Litvinov we find Leonid Krassin, who once managed But these are all comrades engaged in the work of the Soviet government. There are also the comrades more ac- tive in the Communist International, like Gregory Zinoviey, president of the Petrograd Soviet, but also the head of the Communist World Party =the Communist International. *; ¢ sidered one of the most able engineers in Russia. He was a great power in Russia’s early days of reconstruction. There are plenty of other men of great ability in the Soviet foreign of- fice, who run rings around the diplo mats of capitalist countries. Another outstanding figure is Michael Kara- khan, who has been carrying on such successful work in the orient, es- pecially with Japan and China; not to overlook ‘the great achievements of Joffe. Communism’s best propagandists. He has been for a long time head of the Soviet propaganda bureau. es «+ 8 Nikolai Bucharin, another powerful Communist writer, is the editor of the official organ of the Russian Commun- ist Party, the Pravda. ss *.+ 8 George Steklov is the head of the editorial staff of the Izvestia,.the of- ficial organ of the Russian Soviét gov- ernment, me - s * - These are only a few of the lead- @rs—not “heroes”— of the Russian Soviet revolution. They are of the revolution. They sprang from the vic torious struggle of the masses of op- pressed against the capitalist reaction. Under the dictatorship of the prole- tariat, the transition stage towards Communism, multitudes of such lead: ers are rising to take up the new tasks—the building of the Communist society. The workers in all other lands may well envy the workers and But there are not only men com- rades in Russia’s foreign service. Al- exandra Kollontai, veteran of the Rus- sian revolutionary movement, is, the Soviet representative at Christiania, the capital of Norway. She spent much time in exile in Germany while the czar still ruled in Russia, but re- turned immediately following the in- ception of the revolution. Moissaye J. Olgin, who has just re- turned from Soviet Russia, says that someone tried to tell him that Anatol Lunacharsky, the Soviet minister of ed- ucation, was just a figurehead in the workers’ and peasants’ government. But Olgin later learned that this in- formant was an anti-Bolshevik and spent his time in denouncing, in a similar manner, all Soviet officials. Karl Radek is declared to be one of _ Side. by side with Tchicherin, we} Lunacharsky. holds that illiteracy was find Maxim Litvinov, who worked with | Russia's greatest curse under the czar Lenin since the Russian Communist|and he is working to wipe it out as Party was created up to thé time of|rapidly as possible under the Soviet the latter’s death. Litvinov was onejrule. Reports indicate that he is suc- peasants of Soviet Russia their lead- ership. This is something for the hero worshiping American workers to look into on,this Seventh Soviet Anniver- Seven Years of Triumphant Soviet Rule By JAY LOVESTONE. © 'HE Workers’ and Farmers” Soviet Republic, the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics, is now entering up- on its eighth year. .- The years of foreign invasion, the years of famine and war, the years of economic blockade are at an end. The enemies of the working and farming masses of Soviet Russia have been de- feated. Communism is increasing its strength rapidly. The economic chaos wrought by the war and czarist-capitalist inefficiency the ruin of industry and agriculture coming in the wake of counter-revo- Iutionary insurrection and sabotage. the stifling of economic progress thru the imperialist blockade—are all at ,an end. Ignorance. illiteracy, oppression, economic backwardness, exploitation —these are, more and more, happily becoming by-gones for the Russian working and farming magses. The Birth of Red Russia. November 7, 1917: The birthday! The capitalist Kerensky puppet gov- ernment is overthrown. The Com- munists win power. “All power to the Soviet of workers, soldiers and peas- ants! Peace! Bread! Land!” are the slogans of the victorious Communists under the leadership of the old guard of the Russian Communist Party— Lenin and Zinoviev. Soviet rule is established. The roar and thunder of the social ‘revolution strike terror into the hearts of the imperialists the world over. The workers of the world hail the new day. ‘Comunism Ends World War. November 7, 1918: The first anni- versary! It was the Communist prop- aganda and the Communist spirit spread amongst the great mass of “German soldiers that brought about the end of kaiserism and the imper- jalist war. Not until the effective Communist agitation directed by the|Republic. It marks the beginning of|ly liquidated. The harvest Bolshevik Party of Russia broke upithe end of the so-called cordon sani-|bumper crop. Gigantic the efficient German military machine. was the Prussian junker-capitalist al- liance forced to seek an end of hos- tilities. Not until the allied imperial- ists began to dread the rising Soviet power were they compelled to consid- er even an armistice. Soviet Republic Crushes Intervention. November 7, 1919: The second birthday! The countless efforts of world imperialism camouflaged and inspired by Woodrow Wilson, to over- throw the Soviet Republic have been decisively crush by the prowess of the Red Army. While the Russian work- ing and farming masses under the leadership of their Communist Party were putting to rout their enemies at home and abroad, the social-democrat- ic leaders in other European coun- tries were serving as the hangmen of their proletariat. It was the traitor- ous social-democracy of Gremany that drowned the Spartican revolution and that aided and abetted the overthrow of the Soviet Republic in Bavaria. It was with the connivance and comfort of the Hungarian social-democracy that Mr. Hoover was able to engineer the drowning blood of the Soviet gov- ernment in Hungary. In all these dark hours the Russian Communist Party, at the head of the Soviet. Re- public, held aloft the banner of the world social revolution. Ring of Iron and Fire Broken. November 7, 1920: The third anni- versary! More and more the capital ist powers are beginning to recognize that Soviet Russia is invincible. The oldest capitalist government, on whose land the sun never sets, Great Britain, recognizes its failure to crush the workers’ and farmers’ Soviet Repub- lic by force of arms. Captain O’Grady is appointed to negotiate with Com- rade Krassin at Copenhagen. This marks the beginning of the collapse of the murderous blockade of the Soviet taire—the capitalist imperialist ring of |Moscow shows inestimable progress . iron and fire thrown around Soviet Russia in order to break the backbone of international Communism. Last Imperialist Attack Shattered, November 7, 1921::The fourth birth- day! The victorious Red Army has succeeded in sweeping into oblivion the imperialist counter - revolutionary lackeys. The Kolchaks, the Yuden- itches, the Wrangels and the horde of lesser hooligans have all been smash- ed by the workers’ and peasants’ Red Army. The American working men are beginning to demand peace with Soviet Russia. American soldiers stationed in Murmansk and Siberia mutiny. Reactionary Poland is forced to give up its war against the Soviet Republic. The Kronstadt revolt, the last. flicker of counter-revolutionary hope, is extinguished. Vanquishing the Famine. November 7, 1922: The fifth anni- versary! The allied imperialists, de- spairing of their nefarious plans to overthrow the Soviet Republic thru a frontal attack, are planning to resort to other means. Soviet Russia is in- vited to meet the imperialist agents at the Genoa and Hague conferences. The famine sweeps the Volga valley. The working classes thruout the world ral- ly to the support of the starving work- ers and peasants of the Soviet Repub- lic. The Fourth World Congress of the Communist International and the First World Congress of Red Interna- tional of Labor Unions mark the vic- tory of the Soviet Republic over the in the rebuilding of agriculture in the Soviet domains. Red Russia is build- ing a huge air fleet and increasing the effectiveness of its revolutionary army. Tremendous headway is being a in the reconstruction of indus Communist Russia Triumphant. November 7, 1924: The seventh an- niversary! The Union of Socialist Soviet Republics is triumphant. Im- perialist France, the arch enemy of Soviet Russia, the essence and incar- nation of capitalist hostility to the first workers’ and farmers’ Soviet Re- public, recognizes the bankruptcy of its anti-Soviet policy. The French government is compelled to extend un- conditional de jure recognition to the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics. At least nineteen capitalist govern- failure of their campaigns against the Soviet Republic and have granted full recognition to the Soviet government. Within one year at least twelve cap- italist governments, amongst which are to be found England, Italy, the Baltie countries and France, have for- mally recognized the Soviet govern- ment, Japanese recognition is now only a matter of weeks at the most. Soon the entire continent of Asia will have recognized the Soviet Republic. Soviet industry and trade are mak- ing remarkable progress. Soviet Rus- sia has come out victorious over coun- Rebuilding Soviet Russia. November 7, 1923: The sixth birth- day! The famine has been complete |head of which now stand e Eben wai ments have been forced to confess the - 7 2 ——— —EE