The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-06-02
Moscow Museum Does
Honor to Ruthenberg

working masses. They are generally
deserted sepulckres.
But on this Sunday that / visited
the Museum Of the Revolution, &C
companied by Comrade Frumkina,
an unending stream of humanity was
continually pouring thru the various
and numerous rooms. There were
plenty of lecturers to explain every
thing, not in a careless monotone,
but with intense enthusiasm, like a
Jealous teacher interested in his task.
Thus one of these lecturers, that we
listened to, interspersed her remarks
with questions, that were quickly an
swered by some one in the audience.
Thus in one section was a map show
ing the route taken by Lenin from
Switzerland to Russia following the
February, 1917, revolution. The lee
turer started off asking, Where was
Lenin when czarism fell ?" which put
the gathering Immediately on tiptoes.
Then when the original of a thesis
written by Lenin was shown in a
glass case, the lecturer would ask,
What is a thesis?" and some work
er would quickly and accurately re-
ply.
Thus this Revolution Museum, Civ
ing a Bolshevik view of the struggle
Of the workers and peasants for pow
er in Russia, is sort of university
for the thousands that pour thru it.
Il starts off in it's first section
with review of the Cossack and
Peasant Instruction of Stenka Rasin
in the 18th Century, and the Cossack
and Peasant and Workers Insurrec-
ton Of Emelian Pugatchev in the
18th Century.
Section Shows Revolution.
The second section shows the rev
dictionary movement during the first
half Of the 10Th Century. There are
documents on serfdom under Nicholas
l. the Peasant Liberation, the Peas
ant Disorders, the Revolutionary
movement in the COS, the movement
of the "Narodnid" about 1870, the
Group Of the Narodnaya Volya 1.-THE
Peoples Freedom), the first organi-
cation Of the Revolutionary Workers
Movement, the South Russian Work
ers' Union and the Northern Union of
Russian Workers.
Then comes the Russian Marxist
Movement, from the Group of the
Liberation Of Labor" to the group
"Iskra" and the eve of the first revo-
luton. Detailed documents on legal
and illegal Marxist literature of this
epoch are here.
Next comes the First Russian Rev
olution Of l905-1906, richly represent
ed by literature and illustrated papers
Of that time, pictures of the insurrec-
tons and peasant disorders; the first
and second state Duma and the
Fourth (Union) Congress.
Then follows the period Of reaction,
the period Of the new revolutionary
growth of the Great War, pictures of
the persecution and execution of rev.
dictionaries under czarism; pictures
and diagrams showing the decline Of
the old social order and the growing
revolutionary wave, with many illus
tr the World War.
tons of the museum bring
L swn TO the February Revolution
of 1917, with the workers and soldiers
Instructions. Tho first Soviets in
Petersburg (now Leningrad) and
Moscow, the Temporary Government,
Lenin's Arrival, the growth Of Boil
shevism pass in review. Then comes
the October (Russian Time) Revolu-
ton Of 1917.
There is a Lenin Corner, with many
pictures Of Lenin's life at different
periods. Another section shows the
conditions Of prison life, penal servi-
tude and exile, as we'll as the mechan-
ism Of underground (illega) work.
1t is in the Comintern Section Of
the Museum, devoted to the Commun-
list Parties Of the different countries
Of the world, that the developing
struggle in the United States must be
fittingly interpreted.