ABSTRACT
The struggle of Lenin against Menshevism, against Vperedovism and conciliationism, Stalin denounced from exile, as an emigrant's 'storm in a glass of water. The independent position of Stalin at the beginning of the February Revolution was opportunist through and through. The independent position of Stalin in relation to the German revolution of 1923 was wholly saturated with do-nothingism and compromise. The independent position of Stalin on the problems of the Chinese revolution is nothing but a cheap edition of Menshevism of 1903 to 1905. The independent position of Stalin on the problems of the British labor movement is a Centrist capitulation to Martinov's Menshevism. Only a limited mind like Stalin's could imagine that these pitiful secretarial machinations will make men forget the gigantic. All the work of practical organization of the insurrection was carried out under the immediate leadership of the President of the Petrograd Soviet, Comrade Trotsky.
