The foreword by Patrick Lavin, a founding member of the Communist Party of Great Britain, contrasts in detail the conduct and aims of the ‘dictatorial’ Soviets in Russia with the ‘democratic’ British Empire in Ireland. Full text of Radek’s essay here.

Proletarian Dictatorship and Terrorism by Karl Radek. Translated by Patrick Lavin. Published by the Marxian Educational Society, Detroit. 1921.

Contents: Foreword by Patrick Lavin, Karl Kautsky’s Autumn Offensive Against Soviet Russia, The Terror of the Jacobins, The Model Dictatorship, The Softening Influence of Democracy on Manners, The Russian Sodom and Gomorrha, Either Or. 60 pages.

The Marxian Educational Society (appears) to have been a pro-Comintern group centered in Detroit that emerged from the forces of the Proletarian Party which dominated the post-World War One (and earlier) Left Wing in the city. They were responsible for publishing several of the classic works of the early Soviet experience and seem to have joined the Workers (Communist) Party at its founding convention in December, 1921.

PDF of original pamphlet: https://archive.org/download/proletariandicta00rade/proletariandicta00rade.pdf