THERE WERE NO MOSCOW TRIALS! History of the CP SU. Paris.
During 1959 the manual promised by Khrushchev at the 20th Congress was published. The new History of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union is a fat volume of 740 pages which — like the Stalinist work — begins the origins of the Marxist movement in Russia. Unlike its predecessor, which ends with the year 1938, it takes in not only the years of the Second World War ist scientific objectivity?
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A rapid reading enables one to see that though many things bearing the imprint of Stalin himself have been suppressed, many lies and deformations still remain — but it would take more time to refute all these than this book will live in the US SR.
But this book is best characterized by what it leaves out:
Stalin's History was written as a kind of mighty drama. The Party originated in Lenin's struggles against his political adversaries. The struggle rises to a crescendo. Stalin assumes the mantle. His enemies are more and more un-
"The Bukharinites degenerate into two-faced po" "the Trotskyites, from two-faced politicians, degenerate into a band of white guards, assassins spies." (French edition, p 359). The trials reveal that "the Trotskyite and Bukharinite monsters, on the orders of their employers, the bourgeois espionage agencies, have set themselves the goal of destroying the Party and the Soviet state, of undermining the defense of the country, of facilitating foreign military intervention against the USSR of preparing the defeat of the Red Army, of dismembering the US SR, of yielding to the Japanese the Soviet maritime province in the Far East, of yielding to the Poles Soviet Byelorussia, of yielding to the Germans the Soviet Ukraine.
59 advance of the Soviet state is accompanied by a sharpening of the class struggle was false, on pages 483-484, in the following terms:
In practice, this thesis served as the basis for mass repression of the enemies of the Party, already ideologically defeated. The repression fel on many honest Communists and non-Party ele ments. In this period there crept into a responsible position in the state the political adventurer Beria who, for criminal ends, did not shrink from misdeeds, exploited Stalin's personal defects, slandered and destroyed many honest men faithful to the Party and to the people. During this same period, a contemptible rôle was played by Yezhov, who found himself in the post of People's Commissar of the Interior.
The young Soviet student of this book — and all young to commit crimes not specifically designated, but he will not even know about the Moscow trials having taken
This alone is judgment enough on the new historical of annihilating the conquests of the workers and collective:" handbook. There are many species of the lie. Pascal in capitalist slavery in the USSR."
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And now let us read and re-read the new History,
Khrushchev's. All that could be construed as an allusion to, not even a mention of, the infamous trials, comes after the affirmation that Stalin's thesis according to which the
Les Provinciales showed how this was true of the Jesuits. But examples are rarely to be found so extreme as in these two bureaucratic manuals of history: in the one case, of he grossest and most fantastic lies to justify counter revolutionary crimes; in the other, the application to thes same crimes of the lie by omission.
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