Author: Vsesoiuznaia kommunisticheskaia partiia (bolshevikov) [ Stalin ]
Title: Bolshevik : politiko-ekonomicheskii dvukhnedelnik TSK VKP : No. 23-24 : 31 Dekabria [1928]
Description: Moskva, Izd. Gazeti 'Pravda', 1928. orig.wrappers. 25x16cm, 151 pp. Text entirely in Russian.. Rubbed. Rubberstamp to cover. Good. ¶ Includes Stalin's "O pravoi opasnosti v Germanskoi kompartii" [pages 40-47]concerning the purge of the right-wing from the KPD.["In the fall of 1928 an event took place in the Communist Party of Germany which ultimately led to the final break of Brandler and Thalheimer and their supporters. The secretary of the Hamburg organization of the KPD was found to have embezzled 2,000 marks from the party treasury for his own use. When accountants from national party headquarters discovered the crime, they had been threatened with expulsion from the party by party leader Thaelmann if they exposed the theft. The Comintern got wind of the scandal which led to a crisis in the German party with the Central Committee acting to remove Thaelmann, with Thaelmann joining in the unanimous vote. This presented a threat to the faction of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union headed by Joseph Stalin, who saw in Thaelmann a reliable ally during a time of bitter factional warfare. As a result, the Presidium of the Comintern countermanded the German Central Committee's action, restoring Thaelmann as secretary... The corruption of Thaelmann's Hamburg organization and its protection by the Stalin faction in Moscow was used as a pretext for Brandler and Thalheimer to issue a call for a meeting of their followers on November 11, 1928. The Comintern, predictably, reacted with fury. Brandler, Thalheimer, and their associates were bitterly criticized in an open letter from the Comintern on December 19, 1928. Expulsion soon followed..." - wikipedia].

Keywords: Russian Political History, Communist Party, Bolshevik Russia, Soviet Union, Communism, Germany, KPD, Stalin, Politics