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This is indeed a complex and interesting issue. For those who are
interested I have also an English translation of an article of
Sultan-Galiev about "Methods of Anti-Religious Propaganda Among the
Moslems" written in 1922. Those interested shall contact me offline.
Am 31.08.2018 um 20:57 schrieb Louis Proyect via Marxism:
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I have begun reading Rohini Hensman's "Indefensible: Democracy,
Counterrevolution, and the Rhetoric of Anti-Imperialism". The chapter
on "Russia and Ukraine" has a fascinating discussion of Mirsaid
Sultangaliev, who was a Tatar Bolshevik who basically got punished for
challenging the Great Russian Chauvinism Lenin warned about in his
testament. Hensman relies heavily on an article written by Stephen
Blank for the Summer 1990 edition of Russian History, a JSTOR journal.
Below are the first 2 paragraphs. If you would like a copy of the
article, contact me privately at [email protected]
STEPHEN BLANK: STALIN'S FIRST VICTIM: THE TRIAL OF SULTANGALIEV
From June 9-12, 1923 the Central Committee, Central Control Commission
and responsible workers from the national republics and oblasts met in
Moscow for the fourth (and probably last) time since 1920. The sub
ject of their meeting was the "trial" of Mirsaid Sultangaliev, the
most prominent Muslim Communist in the Soviet Union and the leader of
the Volga Tatars' in the state and Party apparatus. He was accused of
treason for corre sponding, with a view towards an alliance, with the
Basmachi, specifically with one of their leaders, A. Z. Validov.
Secondly he and, by implication, his followers, were also accused of
having engaged in unlawful factional activity and the formation of a
deviant line—Sultangalievism or "national Communism"—opposed to the
Party line.
This was the first show trial of any major Communist and was linked to
a subsequent purge of national "deviationists" in 1923-24. As such
this trial and purge were events of the first magnitude in Soviet
history. They impinged on the subsequent nationality policy of the
Party and upon the rise of Stalin to leadership. They also are of
profound importance for assessing the nature of the show trial and
purge phenomenon and the linked issue of GPU involvement in Party
affairs during the NEP. Inasmuch as the trial's ramifications and its
causes in Sultangaliev's undeniable disenchantment with Soviet rule
are covered in extenso elsewhere, I propose to focus attention upon
the issues relating to the Stalin succession and the related phenomena
of the purge and GPU involvement.
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