The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-02-05

a miscarriage of the Korniloviad
There is however, no doubt that this
was the aim pursued by the menshe-
Wiki and the social revolutionaries
when they created the revolutionary
parliament. What can, under these
circumstances, have been the share
of the Bolsheviki in the preliminary
parliament? Nothing else than the in
tention to deceive the proletariat as
to the real character of the prelimin
airy parliament. This chiefly explains
that passion with which Lenin, in his
letters, scourges the adherents of the
preliminary parliament.
The participation in the prelimin
airy parliament was doubtless seri-
GUS mistake. 1t would however be
wrong to take for granted, as does
Comrade Trotzky, that the partisans
Of participation entered the prelimin
airy parliament with the object of or
ganic work, to guide the labor move
ment into the channel of social dem.
ocracy." This is quite wrong. This
is not true. If it were true the party
would not have succeeded in correct.
ing this mistake by the demonstrat.
i've exit from the preliminary parlia-
ment. The living force and the rev.
dictionary power of our party were ex-
pressed, among other ways, in that il
was able so speedily to make good it's
mistake. And now allow me to cor.
rect a slight inexactness which has
crept into the report of the "editor" of
Trotzky's works, Comrade Lenzner,
concerning the committee of the boil
shevist fraction which decided the
question Of the preliminary parlia-
ment. Comrade Lenzner states that
at this meeting there were two re.
porters, Kamenev and Trotzky. This
is untrue. AS a matter of fact there
were four reporters: two for the boy.
colt of the preliminary parliament
(Trotzky and Stalin) and two for par.
ticipation (Kamenev and Nogin).
But, Comrade Trotzky is seen in a
still worse light when it comes to
Lenin's attitude towards the question
of the form of the insurrection. Com
rade Trotzky makes it appear as tho
had Lenin been followed, the party
would in October have seized power
Independently of the Soviet and be-
hind its back" (Trotzky ION Lenin,' y
page, II of the Russian edition.. In
the subsequent criticism of this nom
sense which is ascribed to Lenin,
Trotzky dances and plays" and final.
ly ends with the condescending SEN
tence: This would have been a mis-.
take Comrade Trotzky here tells q
lie about Lenin; he misrepresents
Lenin's view as to the part of the So.
viets in the instruction. We quote a
heap of documents which prove that
Lenin proposed the seizure of power
by the Soviets, by those of Petrograc
or Moscow, and not behind the back
of the Soviets. For what purpose did
Comrade Trotzky need this more than
strange legend about Lenin?
Comrade Trotzky comes off no bet
ter when he "expounds" the attitude
Of the C. c. and of Lenin to the ques
ton of the date for the instruction.
Comrade Trotzky communicates facts
with regard to the famous meeting
of October 10, and maintains that al
this meeting "a resolution was passed
to the effect that the insurrection
should take place not later than Octo
Der Is" (Trotzky ION Lenin," page 70
Russian edition.. 1t looks as tho the
C. c. had fixed the day of the revolu
ton for October Is, and had then it.
self made the resolution of no effect
by postponing it to October rs. Is
this true? No, it is untrue. In this
whole period, the G. c. only passed
two resolutions altogether concern
ing the insurrection, one on the 10th
and one on the 18th of October. Let
us look at these resolutions.
The resolution OF the G. c. on Octo
Der 10 is as follows:
hO ~ ~ uuub tudb lOT Lllt LOllOW
ing reasons an armed insurrection is
on the agenda: the international sit
uation of the Russian revolution (mu
tiny in the German navy, the increas
ing growth of the socialist world rev
olution in the whole OF Europe, the
fear that the imperialists would max,
peace in order TO choke the revolu
ton in Russia, the military situation
(the unquestionable determination OF
the Russian bourgeoisie and OF Keren
sky e. Co. to hand over Petrograd Ia
the Germans), the conquest OF q
majority in the Soviets by the prole
tartan party all this in connection
with the peasant instruction and with
the transference OF the confidence OF
the masses OF the people to our party
elections in Moscow, finally the oh
vious preparations for the second Kor
niloviad (removal OF the troops from
Petrograd, transfer OF Cossacks to
Petrograd, the encircling of Minsk by
noaoorha fao 4 ..I.