The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-11-01
Russia in Transition"

UnQeH Cn6 ABOVE ccpClOn appeared Tic
editorial in the Great Falls Tri-
Dune, one of the most hidebOund capitalist
newspapers in the state, of Wednesday,
October the Both, glOating over the liquid
alton and betrayal of the revolution taking
place in the Soviet Union under the leader
ship of Stain and his supporting bureau
cracy. Read:
"Bewildering are the changes in that
strange land across northern Europe and
Asia where the sOviets rule. Books and
articles written last year about their
plans and methods only confuse us this
year because of the shifting scenes. Much
as the French revolution brought on a
period of violent and rapid changes in
policy and theories before the French re-
public was firmly established, so the Rus
sian revolution is still apparently in a
ferment of growth and evolution and its
final shape and form is unpredictable.
''Many of the popular criticisms of the
hOlShevikS which are current in this
country among those who are alarmed at
the world menace of communism are
based on phases of the revolution which
have disappeared rapidly.
"AbOve all countries in Europe, Rus
sia seems at the present most DESTROYS
of peace. Profession of distrust of the
Russian military policy is common in
some countries in that region but in a
willingness to compromise disputes and
to make amicable trade and political
treaties with all surrounding countries
the soviet rulers are showing a most de-
termined intention if keeping out of war.
There was among the bOlSheviks on the
start, probably, very definite hope of
staging invaSiOnS of other countries to
give the masses an opportunity to rise
i'm revolt. The immediate hope of such
developments have faded at Moscow.
T.: ''Until recently patriotism was a virtue
scOrned in Russia. They were world
rebels and natiOnaliSm was an evil. There
has been surge of natiOnalism in the
land in the past year and Russian pat
riOtism is openly proclaimed by the high
command in the sOviets. 1t is a most
important change of attitude. With it
has come slight extension of democrats
rights to the citizens in the choice of
their ruling group. 1t is very slight
modification of the Oligarchic system but
it is significant.
"ScOrn of the home and family life
of marriage and the conventions which
was among the excuses of the early
days of the revolution is being abandoned
under a leadership which is showing
puritanic attitude on some matters. En-
phasis on family life, parental authority
and responsibility marks very interest
ing change in social standards in tina
strange land.
''There is most intense interest ant
devotion to abstract scientific research
and to the cultural arts of literature, tn,
stage, music and painting that are il
sharp contrast to their fanatical intereS
in the machine and the factory as tn
basis of national life. There are evidence
of that conflict if interest in mOdifica
tons of the educational policy.
''The amazing drama of Russia in tran
sitiOn will be a subject of histories an
literature for generations to come. w
are so close to it in time and so prejU
diced in our attitude and to large ez
tent so misinfOrmed as to the events tina
occur, we cannot understand the quic
tempo of life there, the virility and til
youthful eXuberance of the awakene
people who have staged so tremendOU
an experiment in social organization.
''The ruthleSSnesS, the violence, til
cruelty of the methods used at time
make the world hold back in horror bl
TIE ITemeHuOuS uupOIGduce OI TIE rev
luton cannot be denied. In its rap
changes and its quick shifts in policy an
theories, it is ever more fascinating"
The above editorial will amaze Social
and Communists in this section and
world over Surely it is from a capita
paper, which halls with joy the "tral
ton" taking place in the Soviet Union
the betrayal there becomes more open
manifest. And this line of editorials
pear in the capitalist press ia every p
of the capitalist world-with the same
ulaticn, The same JOY, and with good ]
son.
Palmer and palmer does it become
the days go by, that Leon Trotslxy was
has all of the time been correct in his {
tentions. 1t is Stain and his bureaucr
henchmen who are the betrayers of
world revolution, the false disciple of I
in, who are the Mensheviks, who are
counter-revolutionist rather than Trots
who was exiled precisely, so the revolut
could be betrayed, exactly so the q
transition could take place-a "tra
ton that means if carried out, NOT