By Sidney and Beatrice Webb
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What is its living philosophy and what are its activities ? And finally, what are its defects, or " infantile diseases ", to use Lenin's term, which may or may not be permanent ? The All-Union Party (of Bolsheviks), which to-day is its official title, first appeared in 1898 at Minsk,- as the result of a cleavage in the Social Democratic Party of Russia, two separate parties emerging—the Bolshevik, the Majority Party, and the Menshevik, the Minority Party. I need not, in this summary, describe in detail the tangled history of the Communist (Bolshevik) Party of the USSR.
Or are far less virulent and permanent than they seem to be in the Soviet Union of to-day. The Jdolisation of the Leader The first of these is the idolisation of one individual as an infallible leader who must be reverenced and obeyed and not criticised. This idolisation was seen in the popular elevation of Lenin, notably after his death, to the status of saint or prophet, virtually canonised in the sleeping figure in the mausoleum in Moscow's Red Square, where lie was, to all intents and purposes, worshipped by the adoring multitude of workers and peasants who daily pass before him.
337-338), where 1 give my reasons for rejecting the assertion " that all wars are wrong ". 2 In the American Ambassador Davies' remarkable book My Mission to Moscow he declares that these Treason Trials were justified by the police in the USSR, and not only of Quisling's intriguing w i t h the enemies of Moscow, like Yagoda or the GPU of the generals, but also in respect of honourable mon who were bent on securing, by underhand means, the defeat of Stalin's policy of the collectivism of agriculture and other social reforms started in 1933-1937.