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Zinoviev on the Party Regime
| Author(s) | Leon Trotsky |
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| Written | 6 July 1933 |
Zinoviev, who for a number of years found himself in open or semi-masked opposition to the Stalinist bureaucracy, has finally admitted, after a short stay in exile, that the party regime of Stalin is the best of all. It is therefore all the more enlightening to recall what Zinoviev wrote on the regime in the Communist Party of the Soviet Union just a few weeks prior to the Fifteenth Party Congress. For lack of space we cannot reproduce in its entirety the extensive document directed by Zinoviev to all the leading party institutions — the Central Committee, Central Control Commission, and Executive Committee of the Communist International — and containing a wealth of factual material on the methods of party repression and bureaucratic demoralization. Although we are obliged to confine ourselves to a few of the most essential excerpts, we hope that they will prove sufficient to throw light on the state of affairs in the CPSU as well as on the nature of Zinoviev's repentance.