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Conspiracy. Lenin, in a Czarist political prison, dreamed up the First Congress. Out of his cell, the little father of Soviet Russia smuggled a program for a new Russian Social Democratic Workers' Party. Only nine delegates managed to get past the police and mutter hurriedly for three days at Minsk in 1898. They just had time to draft a manifesto before the police caught up with them...
...next four congresses, all convened outside of Russia, saw the Bolsheviks wiggle into absolute control of the party. Lenin, who got out of Siberia in 1900, won the argument for armed rebellion. '"The Congress," he insisted, "must be ... a council to organize war." The name of Joseph Stalin began to appear in the minutes...
When Mr. John Fox took over the Boston Post, he immediately began looking for Communism in Boston. He picked a good to look for it--the public library. There, Mr. Fox found the shelves filled with subversive literature written by Marx, Engels, Lenin, and Stalin. He bypassed these and went on to the periodical room where he found a few magazines in Russian and one in English filled with communist propaganda...
...chief report at the Congress will be made by Georgy Malenkov, the tough, 50-year-old Politburocrat who has shot up through the party like a skunk cabbage (he weighs 250 Ibs.). In the past, the post of chief "reporter" has been held only by Lenin and Stalin. This signal honor is further evidence that Malenkov, son of an Orenburg Cossack and long regarded in the West as Stalin's most probable successor, is moving closer & closer to the top. Malenkov used to be Stalin's personal secretary, is said to have a phenomenal memory capable of recalling...
...submitted to the Congress reveal no major shakeup, but nevertheless contain some interesting changes (see below). They suggest that Stalin is trying to tidy and tighten up the party, possibly to avoid, for a hand-picked successor, the murderous party strife which surrounded his own successsion to Lenin, thus perpetuate his power beyond death...