ABSTRACT
Olminsky is a man ninety years of age. He is President of the 'Commission for the Study of the History of the Party and the October Revolution'. But Olminsky has had two opinions upon this subject: one in the days of Lenin, another in the days of Stalin. In the autumn of 1921, Olminsky considered the publication of 1905 a work of 'State importance'. Comrade Lunacharsky also now appears among the 'exposers' of the Opposition. 'Trotsky is a prickly person, imperious. Only in his relations with Lenin after their union, Trotsky always showed, and still shows, a tender and touching yieldingness, and with a modesty characteristic of the truly great recognizes Lenin's superior authority'. Lunacharsky declared that if the revolution necessitated the destruction of works of art, he was against the revolution. In the terrible storm of world events Trotsky, the other leader of the Russian revolution, by no means inclined to sentimentalism.
