The First Five Years of the Communist International, Vol, II: Volume 2 by Leon Trotsky & John G. Wright

Author:Leon Trotsky & John G. Wright [Trotsky, Leon & Wright, John G.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: political science, General, History : Revolutionary, Political Ideologies
ISBN: 9780873488310
Google: CBhKPgAACAAJ
Publisher: Pathfinder Press
Published: 1972-11-15T00:08:05.873523+00:00

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[1] Christian Rakovsky – old revolutionist, participant in the labour movement of a number of countries and especially prominent in the pre-1914 days in the Balkans. Like Mehring, Rakovsky was a member of the bourgeoisie who broke with his class, sacrificed his fortune and devoted his entire life to the labour movement. After the October Revolution, Rakovsky was chairman of the Council of People’s Commissars of the Ukraine and performed there great and important work in consolidating the Soviet power. Rakovsky later served the Soviet Republic as ambassador. One of the leaders of the Left Opposition who was finally broken after years of exile, he capitulated to Stalin only to be framed up like the rest of Lenin’s closest co-workers during the infamous Moscow Trials. Rakovsky was sentenced to twenty years’ hard labour at the third Moscow Trial. He was shot on Stalin’s orders in 1941.

Yuri Pyatakov – worked in the ranks of the Russian Bolshevik Party for approximately forty years. During the First World War Pyatakov together with Bukharin conducted internationalist propaganda in the Scandinavian countries. During the first years of the Civil War Pyatakov worked in the Ukraine. In the middle twenties he served as Rykov’s deputy in the Supreme Economic Council of the USSR. A member of the Left Opposition who capitulated with Radek, he was framed and shot by Stalin.

Larin – a veteran worker in the Russian Social Democracy. For a number of years, he was a prominent Menshevik. After the July days in 1917 he joined the Bolsheviks. In the twenties he worked chiefly as an economist. Toward the end of 1921 he headed the movement of the so-called ‘Communist reaction,’ who demanded a return to the methods of War Communism. This former Menshevik who became so radical in Lenin’s lifetime joined without hesitation in the hunt against Trotskyism. Died in 1932.

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