IGNORED IN NEW HISTORY OF SOVIET PARTY
A new rewriting of the official history of the Soviet Union, issued by the Soviet government in time for the fiftieth anniversary of the Russian revolution, “virtually ignores" the role of Leon Trotsky in the Bolshevik seizure of power in 1917, according to an Associated Press dispatch.
The new concoction put out by Moscow "reiterates a rewriting of history dating back to Stalin's days to attack Trotsky and portray him as merely one of many Communists who took part in the revolution."
The chief difference between this new work and former doctored accounts pro-
duced by the Kremlin bureaucracy seems to
be in the role accorded to Stalin.
The Associated Press reports that
"The new history book also mentions the
late Soviet dictator Joseph V. Stalin by
name 36 times, but mostly in routine list-
ings of persons attending meetings."
The 608-page volume is Book One of
Part Three of the official history of the
Soviet party.
The review points out that "Trot-
sky is considered by Western historians
second in importance only to the leader
of the Communist seizure of power, V.I.
Lenin."