Stalin’s summation speech in 1924’s so-called ‘Literary Debate’ that wracked the Communist Party after its 13th Congress, the first since Lenin’s death. The leading figures of the Party all wrote their claims to Lenin’s mantle and leadership of the revolution in the summer that followed his passing. In this article Stalin’s main is Trotsky’s book ‘The Lessons of October.’ Also included in this issue is a report on the Leningrad Party’s, under Zinoviev’s leadership, repudiation of the Opposition. Here are online texts of Stalin’s speech and Trotsky’s ‘Lesson of October.’

International Press Correspondence. Vol. 4 No. 87. December 18, 1924.

International Press Correspondence, widely known as”Inprecorr” was published by the Executive Committee of the Communist International (ECCI) regularly in German and English, occasionally in many other languages, beginning in 1921 and lasting in English until 1938. Inprecorr’s role was to supply translated articles to the English-speaking press of the International from the Comintern’s different sections, as well as news and statements from the ECCI. Many ‘Daily Worker’ and ‘Communist’ articles originated in Inprecorr, and it also published articles by American comrades for use in other countries. It was published at least weekly, and often thrice weekly. The ECCI also published the glossy magazine ‘Communist International’ edited by Zinoviev and Karl Radek from 1919 until 1926 monthly in German, French, Russian, and English. Unlike, Inprecorr, CI contained long-form articles by the leading figures of the International as well as proceedings, statements, and notices of the Comintern. No complete run of Communist International is available in English. Both were largely published outside of Soviet territory, with Communist International printed in London, to facilitate distribution and both were major contributors to the Communist press in the U.S. Communist International and Inprecorr are an invaluable English-language source on the history of the Communist International and its sections.

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