"Sunday Observer" explains in the article the and the significance of the recent the Bolshevik ranks, which has the defeat of Zinoviev and Kit sociations by the ruling party headed of the Left Wing, or extreme 'Stalin. id communist section, og the notify' 6f reconstruction on which The Party fe now concentratin ba Soviet Government te couling to that the capitation at the moment Communion og: the taken or overthrown, and unate aim, iv bending lopment of the economic life Sporadic and' violent controversies party—at least the major out—the Russian Communist ranks breaks—from Bukharin's opposition are practically as old as the Com-[to Lenin in 1919 to Zinoviev's opmunist. Petty itself and during the position to Stalin at present, were nine years of the Bolshevik regime not attempts of the Right Wing to in Russia we have seen at. least force moderation of policy on the four big, and many more small, Party, but, on the contrary, revolts outbreaks, of opposition to th of the doctrinaire and uneompromajority of the ruling party. And mising Left Wing against the eon-yet, despite the obvious fact' that: clliatory policy adopted by Lenin all" these controversies were. es-and his immediate followers, sentially similar to one another both in origin and effect; each of Zinoviev and the Peasants.
hailed outside Russia The present controversy is par-entirely new phenometicularly significant as a desperate non, and each in turn was believed attempt on the part of the Opto signify the beginning of the end position to turn back the clock of rule, 4 of the Bolshevik Party and of its Teconeiliation and reconstruction, [end to.re-introduce into the country, The latest in especial raised ex-some measure of militant Com-gerated expectations followed by' munism and class war. The cen-flood of the most fantastic retral idea of Zinoviev and his ad-ports of factions, revolts, and even herents seems to be the notion that. bloodshed inthe Communist ranks. ince agriculture is recovering at Zinoviev and his associates were much quicker pace than industry, considered as the most popular the proletarian State is in great among the Bolsheviks, and it was danger unless radical measures are expected that their great following taken to accelerate the indus-would have preferred to see the realization of the country on the break up of the party rather than one hand, while employing the to allow their leaders to be dis-political and fiscal powers of the graced: "But facts revealed that State as a deterrent on the capitalist when Zinoviev and Kameney opposent of agriculture. This ed the general policy of the party aim is, in. their opinion, they were practically without a easily achieved, theft method being following, as Trotsky—who is cer-taxation of the peasants to the tainly a' man with a larger per-utmost, especially of the "middle appeal—was left alone two peasants" and the well-to-do classes, years previously when he opposed while using the monopoly of the the Central Committee. "In fact, State in the internal -market to the united opposition of Zinovier make industry more remunerative and Trotsky could not muster more by an arbitrary rise in prices for than 70 delegates at the last Con-ill manufactured goods. gress of the party. in December, 1925, while the Centnal Commit The New Economic Policy Was repraseiited by a solid majority This conception and the remedies] of over 800, proposed by the Opposition are be-Moreover, hostility of tholing fought tooth and mail by the majority against these leaders ws Central Committee of the Party o violent that they would not have which stigmatized the idea of deen given a hearing at all but for financing the industrialization of the special pleading of Stalin, the country by super-taxation of who hoped to preserve unity, out the peasants as "robbery." Poli-wardly at least, by allowing the ically, they consider it sheer mad-Opposition to formulate their ie ess, for such an attempt to enrich if they would comply with the decision of the majority, But when Zinoviey and his associates not only refused to abide by the decision of the Congress, but tried, to the indignation of the leaders, to carry the schism to the point of organizing fan underground faction, Stalin had no difficulty in crushing and disgracing them,
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