The Radical Humanist Formerly Independent India - Organ of the Radical Humanist Movement November 6 1949

It is high time that the unprincipled and reactionary attitude is abandoned and steps are taken to reconstitute provinces on a linguistic basis according to the demand of the people and the promises held out to them throughout the period of the national struggle. [...] Given the economically strategic position of the pCasantry the process of the broadening of the social base of the Soviet State in that manner could not be arrested. [...] The defeat of the Red Army at the gates of Warsaw in 1920 put an end to what was to be the Napoleonic phase of the Russian Revoltion. [...] That experience most probably contributed as much to the New Economic Policy as did the failure of the attempt to estalish Communism upon the capture of power by the party of the proletariat. [...] The requirements of the creation of a powerful army clouded the perspective of the democratisation'of the Soviet State opened up by the New Economic Policy.