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Allegedly out of Russia, from the pen of Comrade Leon Trotzky, came a violent denunciation of Max Eastman, U. S. Communist, and Max Eastman's book Since Lenin Died...
...Supreme Economic Council, as its name suggests, is concerned with industry, finance and commerce. In its Presidium, which consists of 12 members, M. Trotzky will take charge of the electrotechnical branch and will, doubtless, attempt to give effect to the late Lenin's aphorism: "Socialism plus electrification means Communism." "He will also be in charge of the scientific technical department and last, but not least, Chairman of the Concessions Committee, which supervises, gives (and takes away) foreign concessions...
...Odessa to Siberia (escaped), to Geneva, back to Russia, to Siberia (escaped), to Austria. On the outbreak of the War, he went to Paris, was deported to Spain, arrested, left for the U. S., edited the Nory Mir in Manhattan, left early in 1917 for Russia, where he became Lenin's right-hand man and took prominent part in the Oktober (Bolshevik) revolution...
...Lenin died and, allegedly, designated Trotzky as his logical successor. But there was too much jealousy in the Bolshevik camp to permit of so easy a solution. Rykov, a moderate, succeeded Lenin. Trotzky remained War Lord, wrote a book called 1917, made several speeches in which he attacked the policy of the Government...
...somewhat different from those of Emma and Alex: he still does believe in the regime of the Soviets, but avers that they are being run by a mere 18,000 people who are fast becoming an aristocracy. He shows himself to be a partisan of Trotzky, says that Lenin designated Trotzky as his successor on his death bed and, in the same place, cursed Stalin, Kamenev and Zinoviev, the present rulers of Russia...