Soviet Policy and its Critics - Campbell J.R
J. R. CAMPBELL
The ordinary reader of’ newspapers cannot fail to note a heightened interest in Soviet affairs, together with an in-crease in the activities of hostile critics of the Soviet Union. Hostile criticism of developments in Russia, since the Bol-shevik revolution twenty-one years ago, has served the po-litical aims of the reactionary forces in the world, and has therefore been encouraged and organised by them. In recent years this criticism has developed as an integral part of the offensive of the three great Fascist powers – Germany, Italy and Japan – who have proclaimed their hatred of the Soviet Union, their contempt of democratic States and their inten-tion to secure a new division of the territory and markets of the world. They and their sympathisers and allies in the democratic countries never lose an opportunity of attacking the Socialist great power which is the main bulwark against Fascist aggression.
A considerable part of recent criticism has revolved around the Moscow trials. The accused in these trials were convicted of murders, wrecking, espionage and plots to overthrow the present Soviet Government by an internal coup timed to coincide with an invasion by Fascist powers. It is difficult for the uninformed newspaper reader to see these criminals in the light of their political background: to realise that their crimes are only a culminating point in the struggle which Trotsky and his followers have been waging against the Bolshevik Party since 1903; that the real face of Trotskyism during recent years is revealed not in Trotsky’s “Left” criticisms of the Soviet Union and its leaders, but in the far from Left activities of himself and his followers; that these “Left” criticisms have become a screen for crimes against the people of the Soviet Union and the peo-ples of the world.
The author believes that these “Left” criticisms would not have been accepted or purveyed by any sincere person in the Labour and progressive movement but for the web of lies that reaction, in its various disguises, has woven around both the Soviet Union and the theories of Marx and Lenin. It is therefore fitting that a Communist, a responsible mem-ber of the Party which bases its policy and activity on these theories, should describe the struggle for their application in the fight against the Tsardom and in the building of a Socialist society after the Bolshevik revolution of 1917.
In doing so the author believes that he is not only clear-ing away lies and misunderstanding, but also exposing the real basis and aim of the hostile criticism of the Soviet Un-ion, and in this way serving the cause of peace and democ-racy as well as helping the Socialist Movement to find its bearings in this extremely critical period.
J. R. CAMPBELL
II. Trotsky and Bukharin – Enemies of Socialist Construction
III. The Victory of Socialism in the Soviet Union
IV. The Trotskyists and the Soviet State
V. The New Constitution and the Struggle Against Bureaucracy
VI. The Political Background of the Trials
VII. The Trials and their Critics
VIII. Trotskyism and the War against the U.S.S.R.
IX. Trotskyism and the People’s Front
Index
A considerable part of recent criticism has revolved around the Moscow trials. The accused in these trials were convicted of murders, wrecking, espionage and plots to overthrow the present Soviet Government by an internal coup timed to coincide with an invasion by Fascist powers. It is difficult for the uninformed newspaper reader to see these criminals in the light of their political background: to realise that their crimes are only a culminating point in the struggle which Trotsky and his followers have been waging against the Bolshevik Party since 1903; that the real face of Trotskyism during recent years is revealed not in Trotsky’s “Left” criticisms of the Soviet Union and its leaders, but in the far from Left activities of himself and his followers; that these “Left” criticisms have become a screen for crimes against the people of the Soviet Union and the peo-ples of the world.
The author believes that these “Left” criticisms would not have been accepted or purveyed by any sincere person in the Labour and progressive movement but for the web of lies that reaction, in its various disguises, has woven around both the Soviet Union and the theories of Marx and Lenin. It is therefore fitting that a Communist, a responsible mem-ber of the Party which bases its policy and activity on these theories, should describe the struggle for their application in the fight against the Tsardom and in the building of a Socialist society after the Bolshevik revolution of 1917.
In doing so the author believes that he is not only clear-ing away lies and misunderstanding, but also exposing the real basis and aim of the hostile criticism of the Soviet Un-ion, and in this way serving the cause of peace and democ-racy as well as helping the Socialist Movement to find its bearings in this extremely critical period.
J. R. CAMPBELL
CONTENTS
Chapter I. Trotsky against the Bolshevik PartyII. Trotsky and Bukharin – Enemies of Socialist Construction
III. The Victory of Socialism in the Soviet Union
IV. The Trotskyists and the Soviet State
V. The New Constitution and the Struggle Against Bureaucracy
VI. The Political Background of the Trials
VII. The Trials and their Critics
VIII. Trotskyism and the War against the U.S.S.R.
IX. Trotskyism and the People’s Front
Index
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