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(10) commissariats: (a) detailed study of subject of each commissariat; (b) structure; (c) practical carrying out of work.

Further, excursions will be made to the large factories, electric light stations, museums, theaters, etc.

Attendance at sessions of the Soviet will be obligatory.

Lectures will be delivered by Comrades Zinoviev, Bukharin, Nevsky, Miliutin, Ryazanov, Tsiperovich, Lunacharsky, Gorky, Desnitsky, Kudriavtsev, Ninkvich, Rozhkov, Zamyslovskaya, Verkhovsky, Znamensky, Petrov, Misheyev, and others.

For information apply to "Palace of Yuritsky, telephone 48-70 "

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ON POLITICAL PROPAGANDA AND CULTURAL EDUCATIONAL WORK IN THE VILLAGE

[Resolution of Eighth Congress of Russian Communist Party (March, 1919). Pamphlet. Extracts]

In the plan of educational work in the village must enter in deep harmony with one another: (1) communist propaganda, (2) general education, (3) agricultural education.

1. Political propaganda in the village must be carried on for both literate and illiterate. For literates first of all is the distribution of general political and special peasant popular literature and newspapers in a definite communistic spirit.

Teachers must look upon themselves as agents not only of general but also of communist education. In this respect they must be subjected not only to the control of their immediate centers, but also of local party organizations.

The moving picture, the theater, concerts, exhibitions, etc., in so far as they penetrate to the village (and every effort must be made to this end), must be used for communist propaganda, both directly, that is, through their content, and also by coordinating them with lectures and meetings.

Departments of the public education, in provinces and districts, with the assistance and under the control of local party organizations, organize colleges of propaganda, composed in part of residents and in part of travelers who cover a more or less university.ict. General education should aim not only This class nur light of various sciences to the dark village, but the university are the developing of self-consciousness and a clear Executive Commitad must be closely connected with communist

propaganda. There are no forms of science or art which have not been associated with the great ideas of communism, or with the various activities toward creating communist economic enterprises.

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Agricultural education must be conducted in such a way that its facts are connected up with communist conclusions, thus serving as a support to the general aim of the party to change private individual peasant economy into an organized socialistic.

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RESOLUTION SUPPORTING THIRD INTERNATIONAL

[Severnaya Kommuna, March 7, 1919]

The joint session of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee and the Moscow Soviet of Workmen's and Red Army Deputies sitting with the Moscow Committee of the All-Russian Communist Party, the All-Russian Soviet of Trade-Unions, and of the factory-mills committees of Moscow, which was held on the historic day of the founding of the Communist International, in the name of millions of workmen, peasants and soldiers, who had overthrown czarism and the bourgeoisie, and had taken authority into their own hands-greets the representatives of the Communist Parties of: Germany, Austria, France, Switzerland, the United States of America, Jugo-Slavia, Norway, the Balkans, Finland, Poland, the Ukraine, Lithuania, Armenia, Livonia, White Russia, and Estland, who arrived in Moscow for the first congress of the new International. In their persons the joint session sends hearty fraternal greetings to the proletarians of the whole world, who are struggling against capitalistic slavery, for the liberation of the toilers for socialism.

The session welcomes the Communist International as the leader and organizer of the fighting forces of the world proletarian revolution and expresses the firm conviction that under its leadership the dictatorship of capital will be overthrown by the dictatorship of the proletariat.

In the name of Soviet Russia the session expresses its sincere gratification that the united uprising of the Russian proletariat against imperialism and the bourgeoisie made it possible for the representatives of the international communist movement to hold their first congress in Moscow-this white capital of czars and bourgeois magnates.

The session unanimously adheres to the manifesto of the Communist International and together with the latter calls upon the proletarians of the world to unite in the struggle for socialism. Long live the Communist International. Long live the Communist revolution.

To the powerful blast of the hymn of the toilers, "The International," the session adjourned.

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REELECTION OF PEOPLE'S JUDGES

[Krasnaya Gazeta, December 20, 1919]

At the end of December throughout Petrograd the reelection of people's judges will take place. Not all judges will be reelected, but only those who for this or that reason have not been satisfactory in their posts. The reelection of judges and the confirmation of the new judges will take place in the ward Committees of the Party.

But why are judges being changed? Of what defects are they accused? For the most part it is because of a certain leniency in the sentences and the imposition of too mild penalties. For example at the beginning of this week in the Moscow ward the people's judge, Levin, was removed. In the Party Committee he was accused of being too "mild" and of having handed down sentences that were too condescending. Most of the people's judges who are to be removed are presented with accusations precisely of this character.

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"THE WEEK OF THE FRONT"

[Petrograd Pravda, January 6, 1920]

The first sitting of the Commission for the "Week of the Front" of Petrograd and the Petrograd Province, will take place December 6 at 2 p. m., in Smolny, Room 95.

For work in the Commission, one representative each must be selected by the Petrograd Committee of the Russian Communist Party, the Provincial Committee of the Russian Communist Party, the Provincial Executive Committee (of Soviets), City Executive Committee, Soviet of Trade Unions, Provincial Committee on Deserters, Political Section of 7th Army, Political

Educational Board of Military Circuit, Provincial Military Committee, Agitation Threes, Agitation Points of Railways.

To the sitting are invited also one representative each from the "Kompros”—the Agitation Section of the Petrograd Committee, Workwomen's Section attached to Petrograd Committee, Administration of Petrograd Commune, editorial staffs of newspapers "Pravda," "Krasnaya Gazeta," and of the "Rosta."

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SPECIAL WEEK'S WAR PROPAGANDA IN SOVIET RUSSIA
[Wireless message]

To all Party Committees:

Moscow, December 19, 1919

The Central Committee of the Communists has decided to introduce a "Week of the Front" everywhere, beginning from January 21. In order that this project may be carried out, it is necessary:

Firstly. To form a Special Provincial Commission, on which the Provincial Party Committee, the Provincial Executive Committee, the Provincial Military Committee, the Trade Unions, the Union of Youth and the Provincial Committee for Combating Desertion will be represented.

Secondly. To form a District Commission of the same representatives.

Thirdly. To form Commissions in the cantons and villages whose numbers will be decided by the District Commissions.

Fourthly. To appoint a Secretariat (?) formed of three members of the Provincial and District Commissions, including a member of the Party Committee and bearing full responsibility.

Fifthly. To include in the work all the party Soviet Workers' and Peasants' establishments and organizations, departments for work in the villages among women, village unions of Communists, Students, Red soldiers and teachers, Communes, Unions and Cooperative Societies.

Sixthly. In order to carry out the work for the week, party and Soviet workers must be appointed throughout the districts to assist the local workers.

Seventhly. To request the Provincial Departments of the Russian Telegraph Agency and the local press to publish appeals, proclamations, and posters. The aim of the week is to acquaint

the workmen and peasants with the purpose of the war, the decisive character of the present moment in the fight against the White Guards and the Entente, the nearness of victory and peace and the necessity for supporting the army with all means in our power. The rear must support the front in the following manner: (1) All deserters must give themselves up or be given up by the population.

(2) Equipment and arms must be given up, in accordance with the telegram of the Central Committee for Combating Desertion of December 9, No. 6883.

(3) Presents for the army must be collected. These should take the form of flour, grain, potatoes, vegetables, dairy produce, meat, etc., tobacco of local production, books, equipment, boots, linen, materials, money and all other things necessary for the Red soldiers.

(4) Relief for the families of Red soldiers and for sick and wounded Red soldiers.

With regard to deserters, equipment and arms, it is necessary to gain the cooperation of the population, threatening them with punitive measures, as laid down by the Committee for Combating Desertion. With regard to the collection of presents, it is not necessary that any one should give much, but every laborer should give something. It is desirable that non-party peasant conferences should be introduced in order to carry out the "Week of the Front." Taking into consideration local conditions, the Week of the Front, may be carried out earlier or slightly later than the given time. Further instructions will be sent to you by the Central Commission for the Week of the Front. Inquiries must be addressed to Moscow Administration of the Central Committee for the Week of the Front.

KRESTINSKY,

Secretary of the Central Committee of the R. C. P.

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MOBILIZATION OF COMMUNISTS

[News Item, Izvestia, April 18, 1919]

TROTSKY'S TRAIN, April 16.-The mobilization of Communists and sympathizers, in conformity with the resolution of the Provincial Committee of the Party to call to arms 50 per cent of its members, is going on most successfully. Several hundred com

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