On Third Congress of Comintern
From Chapter 4 of Memoirs of a Revolutionary
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Year First Published: {25546 On Third Congress of Comintern ON THIRD CONGRESS OF COMINTERN From Chapter 4 of Memoirs of a Revolutionary http://www.connexions.org/CxArchive/MIA/serge/1945/memoirs/ch04a.htm http://www.marxists.org/archive/serge/1945/memoirs/ch04a.htm I did not feel disheartened or disoriented. I was disgusted at certain things, psychologically exhausted by the Terror and tormented by the mass of wrongs that I could see growing, which I was powerless to counteract. My conclusions were that the Russian Revolution, left to itself, would probably, in one way or another, collapse (I did not see how: would it be through war or domestic reaction?); that the Russians, who had made superhuman efforts to build a new society, were more or less at the end of their strength; and that relief and salvation must come from the West. From now on it was necessary to work to build a Western working-class movement capable of supporting the Russians and, one day, superseding them. 1943 1967 BC12563-MemoirsRevolution.jpg ART Article CX10840 0 false true false CX10840.htm [0xc00119d170] Cx}
Year Published: 1967
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Cx Number: CX10840
I did not feel disheartened or disoriented. I was disgusted at certain things, psychologically exhausted by the Terror and tormented by the mass of wrongs that I could see growing, which I was powerless to counteract. My conclusions were that the Russian Revolution, left to itself, would probably, in one way or another, collapse (I did not see how: would it be through war or domestic reaction?); that the Russians, who had made superhuman efforts to build a new society, were more or less at the end of their strength; and that relief and salvation must come from the West. From now on it was necessary to work to build a Western working-class movement capable of supporting the Russians and, one day, superseding them.
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