that these great Socialist leaders "are guilty of sabotage against the revolution in Italy, at the moment when it begins to ripen." It was the same with the two delegates of the German Inde pendent Socialists, Dittman and Crespien. Their adverse reports on their return from Russia is elsewhere described, and as a result they also have been excoriated by Lenin. They led the moderates at the meeting of the party who declined to join in the Third International. GEORGIA The new State of Georgia is a Socialist Republic, and the experiment is unique and especially interesting as applied to an Oriental race. The State has almost four million inhabitants. It has a Parliamentary regime elected by proportional representation for the whole country, being a single constituency. The Social Democratic Party has 103 out of a total of 130 members of Parliament. Its rule has brought in in a perfectly peaceful manner a Socialist system. Its inhabitants are engaged mostly in agriculture, 80 per cent being peasants. The land system is based upon a peasant proprietorship, not upon nationalization. The limited holdings are valid only so long as peasants themselves till the land. They pay taxes. The forests have all been taken over by the State. There is universal suffrage for all men an women over twenty. The nationalization of the mines is being carried out. Cooperative production is encouraged. The nobility and other wealthy magnates have apparently offered no resistance to the government's action. The country is already extremely prosperous. A very favorable report was made by the delegates of British labor, Ramsay MacDonald, Tom Shaw and Mrs. Philip Snowden, who visited Georgia during their visit to Russia. The satisfaction given to the population has prevented successes of Bolshevik propaganda which, at first, was very active, and which has succeeded in dominating the neighboring State of Azerbaijsa. RUSSIAN DOCUMENTS Appendix to Note on Russia DOCUMENTS Principles Guiding the Second Congress of the Third International 1641 Relations of the Communist International to the Russian 1643 Manifesto of July 15, 1920, of the International Council of 1645 Lenin's 21 Conditions for Admission to the Third International .. 1647 Bolshevist Congress of Eastern Peoples at Baku. 1654 1660 The Collapse of the Last Bourgeois Illusion, Radek.. 1661 1662 Resolution of the Ninth Congress of the Russian Communist 1663 The Russian Trade Unions Join the Third International.... 1664 1665 Propaganda on the Russian Labor Front, April 15, 1920.. 1668 1670 The Soviet Theory, From Lenin's Report to Ninth Congress, 1673 Speech by Lenin on Peasants and Surplus Grain, March 7, 1920 1676 Programme of The Communists (Bolsheviks), N. Bukharin. 1677 1763 [1639] OUNCEMENT OF THE PRINCIPLES GUIDING THE OND CONGRESS OF THE THIRD INTERNATIONAL following program, issued on July 15, 1920, by the Central ittee of the Russian Communist party, outlines the program approaching Second Congress of the Third International: (1) The year which has just elapsed since the first Coness of the Third International has been characterized by a eat development of the international labor movement in all untries, as well as by an unprecedented development of tional revolutionary colonial movements. (2) The dying world of capitalism is losing its last resort, ich is the League of Nations; the growing Communist volution is uniting its forces around the Third International. (3) This increasing unity is finding expression in (a) the heral watchword of the dictatorship of the proletariat, the viet regime and the mass revolutionary struggle for the viet regime; (b) the formation of Communist parties oughout the world; (c) the formation of works and facy committees and the struggle to insure participation of rkmen in administration, which can be observed in almost the large capitalist countries; (d) the simultaneous interional struggle of the proletariat against any intervention Russian affairs and against the White Terror in Hungary 1 Ireland; (e) the increasing wave of strikes and partial ngs; (f) finally, the union of the proletariat around the rd International, which is now taking place. 4) This is expressed by the fact that our foreign comrades be splendidly represented at the Congress, it is being nded by delegates of all Communist parties and groups sections closely allied with Communism, from England, and, France, Spain, Italy, Germany, Austria, Hungary, mark, Holland, Switzerland, Norway, Poland, Bulgaria the Balkans generally, Finland, etc., from the U. S. A., ca and Australia, and finally from the East (India, key, Persia, etc.). 5) The principal object of the International Communist gress is the introduction of complete unity of tactics the international movement of the proletariat, and the creation of a strong international headquarters for a pre tarian uprising against world imperialism. (6) The following are the most important questions to be discussed at the Congress: The organization of and the part to be played by the Communist party, participation in the trade union movement, works and factory committees, utilization of bourgeois parliaments, the national colonial ques tion, Soviets, international proletarian discipline, etc. (7) The Congress will have to struggle against members of the "Right" Central parties, who wish to join the Third International, because it is now a powerful force and has therefore become fashionable, and also against misunderstandings on the part of those comrades who are opposed to severe discipline, to the utilization of parliaments, and so forth. (8) As the importance of the Congress to the international movement of the proletariat is immense, its importance the refore, to Soviet Russia, is gigantic, and it will facilitate our struggle against the pirates of international imperialism. (9) By having the directing organization of the inter national revolutionary proletariat and by leading it to vis tory, the Communist International is preparing a fraternal union of toiling proletarian Soviet republics. This uni will join together industrial and agrarian countries, w assist in the re-establishment of national economy on principles, and will once and for all lead humanity outf the quagmire of capitalist wars, slavery, oppression and exploitation. (10) The Soviet Republic of Russia is proud of the fa that it is guarding the world revolution, and that the R army is defeating all enemies and thereby clearing the way for the victory of the world proletariat. |