Trotzky Rebuked

While rumors of peasant revolts were gurgitating in the Russian provinces, Leon Trotzky, brother-in-law of the late Lenin and Supreme War Lord of the Red Army, was being hauled over the coals by certain of his brother "Bolshecrats."

It appears that the War Lord has not been overattentive to his Communist duties, that he has used his valuable time in writing a book called 1917, a history of the Bolshevik Revolution, that he has been writing articles for newspapers on The Lessons of the October Revolution.

His Red colleagues, led by his arch-enemy Grigori Zinoviev, Lord Protector of the Third Internationale, thereupon accused Comrade Trotzky:

1. "Of misstating the facts of the history of the Party and giving an untrue version of events ... to pervert Bolshevist ideals, deluding the Party, the Communist Internationale and the whole country regarding the real relations of Lenin to the Party during the period of the Revolution."

2. "Of gross misrepresentation of the history of the Bolsheviki and the October Revolution and of perverting the real relationship between Lenin and the Central Committee of the Party on the eve of the Bolshevist Revolution."

They likewise accused him of attempting to substitute Trotzkysm for Leninism; and a resolution passed against him by Communist Comrades said:

"Trotzky broke his pledge to the Party Congress to abstain from activities which might imperil Party unity. His present activities might engage the Party in a renewed controversy, which is not wanted and would be dangerous.

A move, backed by Stalin, Kamenev, Rykov, Zinoviev, Sokolnikov and others of Moscow's hierarchy, was started to oust the War Lord from the Polit-Buro or Bolshevik Cabinet. His political demise was foreshadowed.