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Troyanovsky and his wife about your |
wish to meet them. 1t would really
be a good thing. They are good
people. We haven't seen as yet much
Of their work, but all that we know
of them to date speaks in their
favor. They are also people Of means.
We could spread out and do things
for the magazine. Troyanovsky Ii
leaving for Russia soon" 1t was in
the same letter that Lenin made his
now famous reference to Stain when
he wrote: I'VE have here with us Q
wonderful Georgian"
Troyanovsky strenuously objected
to his wife's departure for surrep-
titious revolutionary activity In Rus
sia. 1t appears that Of all the Boil
shevist chieftains gathered about
Lenin, he was the only one who had
developed q strong suspicion that
Malinovsky was an agent Of the
Czarist secret service. But Malin-
ovsky was favorite of Lentn's at the
time-although 1t was he who de-
livered to the police Stain. Sverdlov
and Mrs. Troyanovsky upon their
return to Russia.
Overruled by Lenin with respect to
Mrs. Troyanovsky's mission, Troyan-
ovsky resorted to clever device to
set his wife free. Knowing that NAL
inovsky would be afraid of being ex-
posed, he addressed letter to rela-
tive of his wife in Kiev. In the expec-
tation that the contents Of the letter
would be intercepted and copied by
the Okhrana. He was justified. He
had written that Elena's arrest took
place under strange circumstances
and that, were she not released soon,
it would prove that one Of the Bolshe-
vik chiefs was an agent of the Cars
police, for which he would pay
dearly.
Lenin Remains Adamant.
The effect Of the letter was instan-
taneous. Malinovsky learned of its
contents, rushed to the head of the
Okhrana and obtained the immediate
liberation of Rozmirovich. Troyanov-
sky confronted Lenin with the eW-
dence, but Lenin remained adamant
In his faith. 1t was only after the
revolution that Malinovsky's sinister
past was revealed and he was execut-
ed by the Soviet authorities.
split the ranks of all the revolu-
tionary parties of Russia into two
main camps, "defeatists" and de
fensists." 1t was a question whether
defeat or victory would expedite the
overthrow of czardom. Troyanovsky
broke with Lenin.
The famous fourteen points Of
Woodrow Wilson, some future his
torian is likely to discover, had their
origin in a remarkable pamphlet writ
ten by Alexander Troyanovsky and
published in Geneva in 1915. In that
pamphlet the present Ambassador
coined the slogan of Peace Without
Victory and without Defeat" He
advanced the points of self -determina-
ton, of a democratic peace without
conquest and mutual humiliation.
I'VE will not, Of course, conclude
a separate peace with Germany"
wrote Troyanovsky. land leave France,
Belgium, Italy and England to the
mercy of Germany. We will fight for
a democratic peace for all the partici-
pants" This was heresy to Lenin.
In the light of the events of the last
II years and the present Fascist tide.
the Kremlin might ponder whether
the democratic peace proposed by
greater security to the Russian revo-
luton than the peace policy adopted
by Lenin.
Fought Against Germans.
The war issues threw Troyanovsky
into the Menshevik camp. and he be-
came member of their Central Com
mittee. While Lenin and Trotsky
and Stain were fighting Kerensky.
Troyanovsky went as an officer to
the front to fight the Germans. After
the dispersal of the Constituent As
sembly he continued his struggle
against the Bolsheviks, until he was
arrested by them in June, 1918.
Eventually he was released. rearrest-
ed and released again. But it was not
until 1922 that he Joined the Com
munist party. In the meantime he
had parted from his first wife, who
had a child by him and who later
married Krylenko. the chief prose-
cutor of the Soviet Union. He had
held various minor positions, includ-
ing one OF archivist In the Kremlin
1t was here, early in 1921, that a
stroke Of fortune brought him in con-
tact with Stain again.
Il was going home from dinner
having just left one of the Kremlin
restaurants for lower officials" Troy
anovsky himself describes the episode.
"It was getting dark and a snow
storm was blowing. I was heavily
wrapped and walked on without look
ing about. Suddenly somebody slapped
me on the shoulder It was Stain
Without extending his hand he looked
at me and said impersonally:
Well are we acquainted or are
we not?'
"'All right. we are acquainted,
then I answered in the same tone.
"If that is the case. come over
TO my place and let's have q chat
answered Stain"
Was Leader in N. E. p.
The period of war Communism had
just come to a close The new eco
nomic policy was in the air. 1t is
one Of the extraordinary features of
Troyanovsky's career that he had
more to contribute to the N e. P.
the Soviet new deal of the time, than
anybody else outside of Lenin.
Troyanovsky outlined to Stain his
views on the peasant question and
proposed the substitution of an agri-
cultural tax in kind for the grain
requisitioning system, which had been
employed by the Bolsheviks with
catastrophe results. Stain invited
him to prepare q memorandum for
Lenin on the subject. And Lenin
adopted Troyanovsky's idea so COM
pletely that he embodied his sugges-
tions almost verbatim in his report
to the party.
THE question of substituting tax
in kind for requisitioning is primarily
a political one, proclaimed Lenin. Its
essence lies in the relations between
workers and peasants" He echoed