women and has achieved considerable success
in bringing Russian women into the work of
administration. She and Madame Balabanoff
both consider that women in Russia are more
free than anywhere else in the world. The
Secretary of the Moscow Soviet is a woman.
It was my very bad luck to miss Trotsky. He
left Moscow the day before I arrived. My
colleague Griffin Barry interviewed him a few
weeks previously. If Lenin is the soul of the
revolution Trotsky is the living embodiment of
the revolution at work. He is the organiser of
victory in the field and he will be the organiser
of victory in field, factory and workshop. It
is his iron will and determination which will
never acknowledge defeat either on the bloody
or bloodless front. When he and Lenin speak
at a congress or demonstration they are
listened to as representing two necessary sides
of the revolution, enthusiasm and constructive
work. He is the one outstanding Jew in the
world to-day in Russia ; he is as Carnot was to
the French revolution, organiser of victory
over enemies at home and abroad, but, unlike
Carnot, he is now organising a triumph in the
sphere of Labour, and it is this which will
stamp him as one of the greatest leaders of
men.
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