ABSTRACT

On what concepts were based the communist tactics in promoting the November revolution and establishing the soviet form of government? The communist point of view was most authoritatively stated in the Manifesto issued by the First Congress of the Communist International held in Moscow, March 2–6, 1919, and signed by Lenin, Trotsky, Zinoviev, Rakovsky, and Fritz Platten, the last-named of the Swiss Socialist party. 1