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MOSCOW LETTER
How Soviet Students Reacted to the October Revolution
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Rebels Wave the Hunugarian Tricolor in Front of Budapest Parliament
(EDITOR SxorE Below is the tests who proved to him with a organization at the Lomonossovf and spread also to members of the by anti-cultural party secretaries,
tear iJated testa ya letter w rt barra 'e of Lenin quotations that University, putting forth a demand Komsomol aktiv. The "different paths toward so-
Mascyi University. Th std wat he had not touched the actual for accurate reports on and a cialism" which had been approved
printed in the February issue of problem. free discussion of Hungary. The IN THE evening the discussion in principle by the twentieth Par-
"For ," a ioty publiction o conterts of these papers, which was resumed by a circle of ty Congress were also touched in
Very slight changes were made by uoted Len- had diappered at the beginning young writers and students in the the discussion.
"Forum" to protect the identity of in's classic words on the task of the lectures, were spread by "House of Literature." The Hun- Since these paths are already
the writer. Parts ,of the letter were of the "Party of a new type" which word of mouth. New notices ap- garian events were no longer the used by the peoples of Yugoslavia
printed recently by the Nation.) istake over te de- peared on the billboards at noon center of discussion but were only and Poland and have been prac-
FROM NEWSCASTS of Wet bi mnet rotakeoissd by the workers in which a meeting of the Kom- used as an example of what could tically recognized by the Soviet
radio stations and a report by in the general strike, and to direct somel aktiv was called to discuss happen anywhere, including the Union, they should also be recog-
Radio Warsaw we understood that theA~, It was pointed out that the the "shameful" events of the pre- Soviet Union. From this arose the nized as being applicable to the
the events at Moscos 'Lonoonos- Pity of thc new type must never ceding day. Later on, the word further question about the class different peoples of the Soviet
ov University had become know n t'kt' atots gainst a general "shameful" was deleted. character of Soviet society. Union which Started the construe-
in the -West, but we noted that strike with the methods of the The meeting took place in the Agmost all the participants it tion of socialism under varying
their development and extent was bourgeois exploiters state, with Ostrovski clubhouse, and was the discussion agreed that the of- conditions.
not correctly assessed in the West. marial law, military force, and opened by the Secretary of the ficial formula about the "alliance In this problem the first sharp
For us Russia s students, November the forcible dissolution of workers Komsomol organization, Linkov, of workers and peasants with the differences appeared between the
30 1956 ia memorable day, some councils. At this point the discus- with a remark which had the effect intellectuals under the leadership students and writers. The Rus-
say a histoic day. sion deteriorated into a noisy of provoking most of the partici- of the working class was incor- sians among them firmly rejected
After the compulsory lecture on chaos. and the professor preferred pants. He declared it a duty of the rect, and that also in the Soviet the demand for separate socialist
Marxism-Leinism by Prof essor B. to leave. Komsomol to prevent in the future state the conflict between exploit- paths for the Ukraine, the Baltic
E. Syroytchkovi'nl the usual dis- News of this soon spread quickly such "excesses which are unworthy ers and exploited continues. Only countries, and Central Asia, and
cussion was hesld in the course of all over the students' quarters be- of academic institutions." The im- one characteristic of the exploit- stated that this would constitute
which ore student aed a oues- hind the University. The discus- mediate result of this was a new ing class, personal ownership of a threat to the Soviet economic
sion of dc'is ve"ertance pet sions continued, and ito in the ' xcess.' the means of production' had power, and woutl result in the
aps the deeisive question Of iesentng Hsngaran students wver In a quickly improvised vote it changed. dissolution of the Soviet Union
Marxism. At first he presented the aroused from their beds to report'was decided to make a discussion The present right of the work- into a number of national states,
correct Leninist tenet that the on the conditions in their country, on "the Hungarian question in ers to the ownership of the means even though today national states
general strike is the weapon of the Apparently the Hungarian stu- the light of Marxism-Leninism" of production is only formal, and must be considered a thing of the
proletariat, aad that under certain dents were not used to such frank the only item on the agenda, and the party's preferential treatment past; not nationality but the so-
historical circumstances the gen- discussions, and in view of the thus the officials were deprived of of heavy industry, supported by a ciological structure and the area
eral strike for economic reasons political changes which had taken control over the discussion. The centralist administrative system, of economic coordination charac-
can assume politicalsigzihanee place in their couantry, avoided all first speaker even talked about has provided the class character terizes the state.
and may fsnally chane gintoan crucial questions. Nevertheless the "excessively bureaucratized of Soviet society with a legal ba- Next day repors were spread
rmed ma in g. thei revelations providedtufei- apparatus" which has lost contact sis: for their own protection, the of a meeting of the Moscow City
with the masses, and which tries beneficiaries have established the Committee of the Komsomol on
After having pointed to Lenin's cient material for comparisons to stay in power with the methods same type of class justice as exists the situation at the Lomonossov
tenet, and .atci having added that with conditions in the Soviet of the already unmasked Beria. in the bourgeois society for the University. Reportedly the Kom-
the general strike can never be an Union. This referred to Hungary, but the protection of the exploiting class. somol leaders tried at first to clar-
instrument of the exploiting class, In the course of discussions one comparison with the Soviet Union As well as in the old capitalist ify whether these incidents should
he asked how it is possible that in question emerged, a question which suggested itself, and was openly system any opposition against the be considered a negative or a pos-
a socialist country or more direct- is of utmost importance for the mentioned; Zoue must ask wheth- exploiters in the new socialist sys- itive phenomenon.
ly, how in the Hungarian Peoples' system of "established socialism," er the disregard of the decisions tem is branded and punished as
Democracy, a general strike could namely: has not the Party bureau- of the Twentieth Party Congress high treason by a class-conscious HE member of the Moscow City
take place, since a general strike cracy, even though it has no for- could not cause a similar develop- justice. This, however, means that Committee, Artemov, suggested
against a communist workers' and mal right to society's means of ment here, and whether it is not the aims of the October revolution that action should be taken
peasants' government is considered production, already become an ex- possible that some day our work- had been just the opposite.
impossible. ploiting class in the original Marx- ers will rise under the banner of against demagogues who go too
Professor Syroytchkovich could ist meaning by its actual control Lenin against their bureaucratic JfE young writers were bound far, but that the events should be
only answer what was published and utilization of the means of exploiters which have become to embark on the problem of considered positive since they
in our daily press. This, however, production, by its control, over the bourgeoisy. freedom of spiritual and artistic could help in freeing the youth
was not enough for a discussion on labo force and wages? No agree- on Linkov protested against creation. Starting on the basis of movement from its stagnation.
the university level, He began to msent was reached on this ques- this "anti-Party remark" and the decisions of the twentieth Artemov, however, was unable to
speak about the terror of forty- tion. tried to take the floor from the Party Congress they condemned assert himself.
fascist officers, and about the sub- speaker, he encountered such vio- the literature written since the The committee decided to "ad-
versive activities of Western im- 0N THE following day hand- lent protest that he left the hall Thirties as the product of a pro- vise" the Dean of the Lomonossov
perialists, but his words were written papers appeared on the together with other officials. The paganda machine influenced by University to expel a number of
drowned out by the students' pro- bulletin boards of the Komsomol discussion, however, continued the personality cult and directed See A LETTER, Page 18
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