ABSTRACT
Martinov is one of the old leaders of the Russian social democracy. He was a prominent opponent of Lenin at the original party congress in London in 1901, and for twenty years thereafter was a leader of the Right Wing of the Mensheviks. In 1923, Martinov suddenly announced that he had changed his mind and that he agreed with the Bolsheviks. He returned to Russia, was received into the party, and after the death of Lenin was appointed editor of the magazine, The Communist International. The creation of industrial armies, the militarization of labor, and other measures flowing inevitably, just as did the food-distribution, from the conditions of that epoch are portrayed by Philistines and triflers as manifestations of 'Trotskyism'. At the caucus of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee, Jan. 12, 1920, Lenin said on the subject of our disputes with Rykov, Tomsky, and others.
