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THEY FAILED—AND WILL ALWAYS FAIL

By William Hunter

The Newsletter, vol. 1 no. 26, 2 November 1957 · scan page 8

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History appears to have spelled out the finish of the time though it is so small a part of the whole, it has a of the Communist Party, and perhaps the dawn of socialist reason for being, and a deep meaning too. The endless democracy and humanism. But only the people of the lands slights, hurts, indignities, and broken hopes that a man ruled by Communist Parties can decide this issue. like myself endures in the Communist Party are of * * x small moment.

EXT week’s issue of The Newsletter will be published on November 7. It will be a special issue entirely devoted to the Fortieth Anniversary of the October Socialist Revolution in Russia. The special issue will haye 44 pages, and will cost 2s. to non-subscribers. Newsletter subscribers, however. will receive it without extra charge.

There will be a two-colour cover, pictures of some of the leaders of the Bolshevik Party, and two drawings by Paul Hogarth. Here is a full list of authors and articles:

No Force Can Quench the Flames Lit Forty Years Ago by Russia’s Workers and Peasants How They Took Power in Petrograd Leaders of the Revolution WILLIAM HUNTER Honest, Realistic, Disciplined, Democratic: That was Lenin’s Boishevik Party GEORGE CUNVIN The Soyiets—Reality and Caricature MICHAEL BANDA Why and How the Bureaucracy Arose ROBERT ANDREWS The Bolshevik Resistance to Stalinism (1923-28)

ROBERT HUNTER The Purgers and the Purged DON RENTON The Red Army: Mirror of Soviet Society JOSEPH HANSEN The Communist International and Soviet Foreign Policy TONY GUTHRIE The Soyiet Union and the ‘People’s Democracies’

JOSEPH CLARK An American Journalist in Moscow The October Revolution and the Peoples of the East TOM KEMP The Giant Strides of Russia’s Industry GEORGE I. LORMIN Unsolyed Problems of Kolkhoz Agriculture Soviet Philosophers in the Doldrums J. H, BRADLEY Secrecy, Mistakes and Crimes Have Not Stopped Science Forging Ahead in the USSR Hard-won, if Undramatic, Medical Successes BEATRIX TUDOR-HART Theories and Practice of Soviet Psychologists

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