Memo

From The New International, Vol. XIV No. 8, October 1948, p. 226.
Transcribed & marked up by Einde O’Callaghan for ETOL.

We’ve decided to continue with the publication of the most important sections of Victor Serge’s The Year One of the Russian Revolution ... Next month will bring the first part of Chapter 6, which is entitled The Truce and the Great Shift, and will deal with the Soviet occupation of the Ukraine and the events in Finland (revolution and White Terror) ...

And now we have to repair an oversight and an injustice ... The translation of Serge which we have been using is one prepared some years ago by Dan Eastman, and an excellent translation it is too – smoothly written and clear ... Our thanks to the translator and apologies for neglecting to give this well-deserved credit ...

Valentin Toma has promised to send in from abroad a monthly contribution rounding up political news from the Russian satellite zone ... We might call it something like Newsletter from East Europe ... We expect the first for the November issue and, we hope, regularly thereafter ...

This is in line with a policy of The New International which our readers have no doubt gathered from our pages ... Namely, our earnest desire to pay detailed attention to the developments in, and analysis of, the new Stalinist empire in Europe ... We believe that no other socialist periodical has presented as much material on a subject which is undoubtedly one of the most important for understanding what is happening in the world, and that in spite of the well-known difficulties in penetrating behind the Iron Curtain ... Poland, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, Rumania – these have been covered as they, occupied the spotlight ... Would it be boasting to say that any Marxist who wishes to understand the new Stalinist phenomena must read the NI? ...

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