INTERNATIONAL CONCILIATION Published monthly by the American Association for International Conciliation. THE COMMUNIST PARTY IN RUSSIA AND ITS RELATIONS TO THE THIRD INTERNATIONAL AND TO THE RUSSIAN SOVIETS AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR INTERNATIONAL CONCILIATION It is the aim of the Association for International Conciliation to awaken interest and to seek cooperation in the movement to promote international good will. This movement depends for its ultimate success upon increased international understanding, appreciation, and sympathy. To this end, documents are printed and widely circulated, giving information as to the progress of the movement and as to matters connected therewith, in order that individual citizens, the newspaper press, and organizations of various kinds may have accurate information on these subjects readily available. The Association endeavors to avoid, as far as possible, contentious questions, and in particular questions relating to the domestic policy of any given nation. Attention is to be fixed rather upon those underlying principles of international law, international conduct, and international organization, which must be agreed upon and enforced by all nations if peaceful civilization is to continue and to be advanced. A list of publications will be found on page 52. Subscription rate: twenty-five cents for one year, or one dollar for five years. CONTENTS VII. THE HEGEMONY OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY IN RUSSIA IX. THE PROGRAM OF THE RUSSIAN COMMUNIST PARTY. X. THE COMMUNIST PARTY, THE RUSSIAN SOVIETS, AND APPENDICES: 34. "The Party and the Soviets" 35. "Class and Party" 36. Lenin's letter to workmen and peasants 39. Project of program of party 40. Report of Bukharin on program 5 6 7 8 15 17 19 20 22 23 24 41. Resolution of party on Communist International 26 42. Lenin's speech at congress of party 26 43. "To the Proletarians of All Countries". 27 44. Election of Petrograd committee of party 46. All-Russian Congress of Soviets of National 47. Liebknecht and Luxemburg memorial meeting 49. All-Russian conference on work in villages. 51. Seventh number of "Communist International” . the Ukraine 54. Appeal of Party of Internationalists w w w w w w c 32 33 33 35 36 55. Zinoviev to Petrograd Soviet, November, 1919. 58. Order to Red Army supporting Third Interna 38 39 59. Article by V. Bystryansky on Communism 60. "New Books" 61. Leading article by Steklov on Communist Inter national . . 62. "Workmen's Diplomacy" 4I 63. Communist International on Ukranian parties 42 64. Central Executive Committee to the Bashkir Republic 43 65. Third International to workmen and peasants of the Ukraine 44 66. Lenin's letter to workmen and peasants of the Ukraine. 44 67. Appeal to French workmen from Communist International 47 68. Zinoviev's protest on execution of Communists in Budapest 69. Appeal by French Communists in Moscow 70. American Communist in Petrograd Soviet 71. Speech by Tom Paine in Petrograd Soviet 72. Korean delegation at Moscow 73. "The Fifth Saturday Work" for Communist International 74. Zinoviev presents flags to Red Army in name of Communist International 47 48 49 51 [EDITOR'S NOTE. The first portion of this State Department document, with its appendices, was published in the January issue of International Conciliation. This section, with appendices, concludes the document.] PART II THE HEGEMONY OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY IN SOVIET RUSSIA Documents already quoted frequently emphasize that the Communist Party, as such, is and should be the directing party in Soviet Russia, the absolute predominance of Communists in the last All-Russian Congress of December, 1919, was shown by the official figures on that Congress. And the general theory of the rôle of a Communist Party in time of social revolution has been much discussed. The official editor of the Petrograd Pravda, writing on "The Party and the Soviets," says: It is no secret for anyone that in a country where the working class and the poorest peasantry are in power, that party is the directing party which expresses the interests of these groups of the population-the Communist Party. All work in the Soviets goes on under the influence (of ideas) and the political leadership of our party. (See Appendix 34.) The leading article in the Petrograd Pravda of November 5, 1919, entitled "Class and Party," written after the collapse of the Yudenich offensive, states that— All artificial dividing lines were destroyed during the threatening days of great alarm, and also all divisions between that class which unanimously rose to defend communism and its great Communist Party. (Appendix 35.) In a widely published letter by Lenin, addressed to workmen and peasants on the occasion of the victory over Kolchak, one finds it stated that |