ABSTRACT
Comrade Raskolnikov, In 1917 Raskolnikov was an officer in the fleet, and took part in the overthrow of the Provisional Government as one of the leaders of the Kronstadt Soviet. He works now in the Communist International. 'The echoes of past disagreements during the prewar period had completely disappeared. No differences existed between the tactical line of Lenin and Trotsky'. Leon Davidovich was not at that time formally a member of our party, but as a matter of fact he worked within it continually from the day of his arrival from America. Trotsky's attitude to Vladimir Ilych was one of enormous respect. He held Lenin higher than all contemporaries whom he had met in Russia or abroad. This testimony of Raskolnikov as to the relations between Lenin and Trotsky does not, of course, deter Raskolnikov from quoting the 'Letter of Trotsky to Tcheidze', for the education of the younger members of the party.
