ABSTRACT
The brilliant literary-publicistic activity of Comrade Trotsky gained him the world-wide name of 'Prince of Pamphleteers'. In his character of inquisitor, Yaroslavsky takes a voluptuous pleasure in bringing face to face on the witness-stand communists guilty of distributing the Testament of Lenin, the letters of Lenin on the national question, and other illegal documents in which Lenin dared to criticize Stalin. Let us bring Yaroslavsky face to face with himself. His protest against the pessimism of the demagnetized Russian intelligentzia Comrade Trotsky established later. Not in words, but in deeds he established it, shoulder to shoulder with the revolutionary proletariat of the great proletarian revolution. Although in some of his more recent appreciations Comrade Yaroslavsky may have rounded the circle at 180 degrees, we must confess that in one respect he remains exactly the same: he is equally unbearable in slander and in praise.
