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From The New International, Vol. XIV No. 7, September 1948, p. 194.
Transcribed & marked up by Einde O’Callaghan for ETOL.
We have now run most of three chapters of Victor Serge’s historical work The Year One of the Russian Revolution, taking up the period from the 1917 insurrection through the dissolution of the Constituent Assembly ... The short excerpt in this issue is Serge’s summary of that period ...
Our readers will remember we said, when we started the series, that we will judge by their reactions how much of the book we will run ... If there are a sufficient number of our readers interested, we are certainly willing to continue ...
And so we’re asking you to react; in writing ... Drop us a note, postcard or letter: Do you want more of it? ...
No electioneering at the polls and all that, but personally we hope the response will be favorable ... However, unless the opinions expressed warrant continuation, we will put a period to The Year One at this point and return the space to the NI’s previous department, Archives of the Revolution, which was put in suspended animation for the duration of the Serge series ...
A good many of our Constant Readers no doubt remember the to-do over “Bruno R.” in 1939, in the Trotskyist movement (James M. Fenwick recalls it to memory in his article in this issue) ... Made famous (or at least notorious) by Trotsky’s attack on it, the book itself remained unfindable and almost legendary until last June, when we laid eyes on it for the first time ... Then – it never rains but, etc. – only two weeks after the first copy turned up, a second copy made its appearance in our midst, brought back from Europe by Max Shachtman ... Curious to relate, the leaves of both were uncut ... Fenwick started work on the present article at that time, and the article in this issue is the result ...
We’ve propositioned our new contributor Valentin Toma for a monthly newsletter on the Balkans and East Europe ... His two articles on Rumania (in this issue and the last one) have only whetted our appetite for a bigger helping from his expert knowledge of that part of Europe ... What with transatlantic mail and such,we still haven’t heard but we’re expecting ...
Next month comes Max Shachtman’s promised study of the independent socialist and Marxist movements of Europe – that is, the groups oriented to a greater or lesser degree toward a Third Camp position in opposition to both the Stalinists and reformist social-democracy, against a tie-up either with Washington or Moscow ... Comrade Shachtman will also discuss the present status of the Fourth International and the recent Second World Congress of the F.I. ...
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