The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-07-28
The French Revolution Of
1889 on View in Moscow
at Marx--E ngels Institute
By ]. LOUIS ENGDAHL

OUR comrades in the Soviet Union never do things
pecemeal. They very thorough. Thus, when
the MarxEngels Institute in Moscow decided to
memoratG the 13Oth anniversary of the death by
ton of Francois Noel Babeuf with exhibition befit-
ting the memory of this French revolutonst, host
OF workers at their task diligently and earnestly
In short time they had assembled sufficient material
for exhibition the entire period Of the French
Revolution, 1889. .es8a
SO the Babeuf Exhibition became part of the larger
of the French revolution itself.
Strange, however, that this memorial to the young
French revolutionist, born of humble, proletarian
family, who paid with his life at the age of 81 for his
attempt at armed uprising against the Directory,
n 1897 should to life in Moscow in 1927 in what
had at time been the Palace of the Dolgoruki fam
y of the most ancient and noble families of Rus
sa reputed the founders of the city of Moscow
But this is just another of those strange develop
ments that has taken place result of the fact that
the workers have seized power and established their
government in what "the land of the czars"
One Of the most noted of the Dogorukis was Vastly
Lukch Dogoruk whom Peter the Great sent to France
to be educated and to acquire superficial elegance at
the Court of Versailles. He did develop into skilled
diplomat and experienced ntriguer which got him
considerable trouble for trying to forge the will
of Peter II. The last of the family, insofar Russia
is concerned, Prince Hans Dolgoruk member of
the Cadet Party, who followed Mliukov and his regime
into oblivion the trail taken by Kerensky before
the rise of the Soviet power.
Babeuf the leader of the proetarian effort for
power that made toward the close of the period
of the 1889 revolution in France Greater grew this
effort in the revolutions of 1848 and 1871 Babeuf
the first to herald the coming of Socialism. Of him
Frederick Engels wrote, in his Socialism: Utopian and
Scientific" follows:
"And aho, upon the whole the bourgeoise, in their
struggle with the nobility, could claim to represent at
the time the interests of the different working
classes of that period the French Revoution), yet in
every great bourgeois movement there independent
oubursts of that class which the forerunner
or less developed of the modern proletariat. For
ample at the time of the German Reformation and the
Peasants War, the Anabaptists and Thomas Munzer;
in the great English Revolution the Jewellers; IN THE
GREAT FRENCH REVOLUTION, BABEUF."
Thus Babeuf, whose song, Dying of Hunger, Dying
of Cold" said in 1896, have brought regiments
the camp of Grenele to the of mutny, inspires
this exhibition of the French Revolution at the Marx
Enges Institute in Moscow, 1927.
The exhibition was arranged in six large rooms Re-
search had gathered the material Artists had
arranged it in perfect and attractive order Here
thoro education in the times of the French Revolution
airy Period awaiting the earnest student
The first room by way of introduction, showed pic
lures of many of those prominent in this period with
rare editions of the histories of these times, in French
German and Russian, written than 100 years
To give the names of them all would be to call the
roll of those who and fell with the ebb and flow
of the revolutionary tide There was Mrabeau, Char
cite Carnot, Lafayette, Baly, Barnave Maesherbes,
and many but interest is turned to the original
of letter written by Charlotte Corday, to her father,
four days before she murdered Marat There is also
the original of book written by Albert Mahiez,
lessor at the University of Paris "The High Cost
of Living and the Social Movement Under the Terror"