PROBLEMS OF PEACE AND SOCIALISM (PPS)

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PROBLEMS OF PEACE AND SOCIALISM (PPS)
(The Monthly Journal of the
International Communist Movement)
AN INVESTIGATIVE AID
December 1966
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PROBLEMS OF PEACE AND SOCIALISM (PPS)
(The Monthly Journal of the
International Communist Movement)
This study is designed to bring together pertinent information
concerning the establishment in 1958 of Problems of Peace and
Socialism, the monthly publication of the international Communist
movement, the organizational structure of its editorial staff, the
identities of the Communists who have been associated in some degree
with this publication and the extent of Soviet control exercised over it.
Information is also included concerning the twenty-six
international seminars sponsored wholly or in part by PPS since
1958, the subject matters discussed, and the identities of most of
the individual Communists who participated in them
This study should serve primarily as an investigative aid
since it identifies a large number of leading Communists throughout
the world who have become engaged in international Communist
activities by actually working on the PPS staff in Prague, by attending
PPS seminars or by contributing articles to the PPS Journal.
The spelling of the foreign names which often appear in the
English editions of PPS publications in irregular or garbled form has
been standardized insofar as possible in this study. The garbling of
the spellings of some names in the PPS publications indicates trans-
lation through a third language (i. e. Russian) rather than directly
from the language of the author. For example, the Cuban author
Blas ROCA appeared as Blas ROKA in the August 1959 English edition
of the PPS Journal.
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Preface
PAGE
i
I. '
Origin
A.
Background
1
S.
March 1958 Meeting
2
C.
Soviet Named as Chief Editor
3
D.
Secret Conference Held 23 June 195.8.
4
E.
Initial Issue of Journal Published (September
1958)
4
F.
Stated Purpose of the New International
Communist Journal
5
II.
Organizational Structure of PPS
A.
Problem of Developing Information Concerning
the PPS Organization
6
B.
Headquarters Location
6
C.
The Editorial-Board - Editorial Council
7
D.
Functional Sections
8
1.
Section for Exchange of Experience in
the Work of the Party
8
2.
Philosophy, Sociology and.History Section
9
3.
World Economy Section
9
4.
Socialist Countries Section
9
5.
International Problems Section
9
6.
National Liberation Movement Section
9
7.
Workers' and International Democratic
Movement Section
10
8.
Culture and Science Section
10
E..
Area Committees - Translation Staff
11
F.
Countries Represented or Affiliated with PPS
11
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III. Editorial Staff of PPS (Soviet Bloc) 13
A. Key Administrative Officials 13
1. Chief Editor: Georgiy (Yuriy) Pavlovich
FRANTSEV (USSR) 13
2. Editorial Secretary: Aleksandr Ivanovich
SOBOLEV (USSR) 14
3. Deputy Editorial Secretary:
Vadim ZAGLADIN (USSR) 15
4. Executive Secretary:
Vaclav SLAVIK (Czechoslovakia) 16
5. Manager of Press. Distribution Agency
(PDA): A. NOVAK (Czechoslovakia) 17
B. Other Soviet Personalities on the PPS Staff 17
1. Eduard Arturovich ARAB-OGLY 18
2. Yuriy A. ARBATOV 18
3. Karen BRUTENTS 18
4. Arkadiy BUKIN 19
5. Viktor Aronovich CHEPRAKOV 19
6. Lev Petrovich DELYUSIN (DELYUSHIN) 19
7. Aleksey GOLYSHKIN 20
8. Akhmed Akhmedevich ISKENDEROV 20
9. KAPYRIN 20
10. Yuriy Fedorovich KARYAKIN 21
11. Gennadiy Yakovlevich KOVALENKO 21
12. Sergey KOVALEV 21
13. Mikhail Vasil'yevich KREMNEV 22
14. Boris Moyseyevich LEYBZON (LEIBSON) 22
15. Mekmeral Konstantinovich MAMARDASHVILI 23
16. Kiva MAYDANIK 23
17. Yuriy Konstantinovich OSTROVITYANOV 23
18. Valentin Vladimirovich PESCHANSKIY 23
19. Ivan Petrovich PLYSHEVSKIY 24
20. Gennadiy PUSHEV 24
21. Boris Sergeyevich RYURIKOV . 24
22. Stepan SALICHEV 25
23. Sergey SEMENOV 25
24. Javad Azizovich SHARIF 25
25. Ye. P. SITKOVSKIY 25
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26.
V.
Aleksandr VEBER 26
Yuriy ZHILIN 26
Other Bloc Personalities on PPS Staff 27
1.
2.
3.
4
Helene (Lene) BERG 27
(German Dexhocratic Republic-East Germany)
Andras GEDO (Hungary) 27
Antonin HORAK (Czechoslovakia) 28
Jozef KOWALCZYK (Poland) 28
.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
Miroslav LAB (Czechoslovakia) 28
Ion POPESCU-PUTURI (Rumania) 28
Asen Todurova TOHARAKCHIEV (Bulgaria) 29
Barou ZAHARESCU (Rumania) 29
Leon ZIELENIEC (Poland) 29
Jiri ZUZANEK (Czechoslovakia) 30
IV.
Editor
ial St
aff Members of PPS (Free World) 31
A.
Listings by Country 32
1.
Argentina
32
2.
Austria
32
3.
Bolivia
.33
4.
Brazil
33
5.
Canada
34
6.
Colombia
35
7.
Costa Rica
35
8.
Denmark
36
9.
El Salvador
36
10.
France
37
11.
Great Britain
37
U.
Guatemala
38
13.
Honduras
38
14.
India
39
15.
Indonesia
40
16.
Iran
40
17.
Iraq
40
18.
Italy
41
19.
Japan
42
20.
Lebanon
43
21.
The Netherlands
43
22.
Spain
44
23.
Syria
44
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V. Publications of PPS
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A. Monthly Journal 46
Problems of Peace and Socialism (PPS)
English Edition - World Marxist Review (WMR)
1. Printing and Distribution of Monthly Journal 47
2. Subscriptions and Rates 48
B. Information Bulletin 49
C. Peace and Socialism Publishing House 49
VI. PPS Seminars 50
A.
B.
Value of PPS Seminars
Scope of the Subject Matters Discussed at
the PPS Seminars
VII.
Soviet Administrative Control Over the PPS
Organization and Struggle for Unity,,
55
A.
Connections Between PPS and the International
Department of the CPSU
55
B.
Role of Vitaliy Germanovich KORIONOV
55
C.
Procedure for Approval of Articles Appearing
in PPS Journal
58
D.
PPS Serves as a Liaison Center for CPs
58
E.
Financing of the PPS
59
F.
Factionalism and the Struggle for Unity
59
G.
Possible Future Course of the PPS
61
APPENDIX A: Editions of the Journal Problems of Peace
and Socialism Including Local Titles and
Local Printing or Distribution Points
(where known).
APPENDIX B: Key Seminars Sponsored in Whole or in
Part by PPS 1958-1966. 67
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Exchange of Views at the Gramsci Institute
in Rome, held at the end of 1958.
67
2.
Exchange of Views at the Leipzig Institute of
World History, held late in May 1959.
68
3.
Exchange of Views on "The Struggle of the
Communist and Workers Parties Against
Revisionism", held in Bucharest, Rumania
August 25-September 2, 1959,
68
4.
Meeting of the Editorial Council of PPS held
in Prague 13-16 April 1960.
69
5.
Exchange of Views on "Economic Role of the
State Under Socialism", held in Prague in
April 1960.
70
6.
Exchange of Views on "The Agrarian Problem
and the National Liberation Movement", held in
Havana, Cuba and Bucharest, Rumania in
September 1960.
70
7.
Exchange of Views on "Man and His Future ",
held at Royaumont, near Paris 17-20 May 1961
and on May 21st at the Sorbonne.
71
8.
Seminar on "Communist Movement and the
Youth", held in Prague 14-16 June 1961.
72
9.
Round-Table talks among a group of Marxist
Sociologists, held in the Editorial Office of the
PPS Journal, 6-7 October 1961.
72
10.
Exchange of Views on "Paths of Development
of Newly Emergent Countries" held in Prague
in September 1961.
73
11.
Exchange of Views on "Crises and the Working
People", held in the Editorial Office of PPS in
Prague. (Date not given, believed to be late in
1961 or early 1962.)
73
12.
Seminar on "The Role of Women in Modern Society",
13.
held in Prague in May 1962. 74
Exchange of Views on "Anti-Communism, the
Enemy of Mankind", held in Liblice (near Prague)
28-30 May 1962. 74
14.
Exchange of Views on "Building a United Anti-
Imperialist Front", held during the summer of
1962. (Believed held in Prague.) 75
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15. Exchange of Views on the "Problems of Modern
Capitalism", held in Moscow from 27 August-
3 September 1.962. 75
16. Exchange of Views on "The Socialist World
System and the National Liberation Movement", 76
held in Prague in December 1962,
17. Exchange of Views on "Communists and
Democracy", held in Prague 23-26 January 1963. 77
18. Exchange of Views on "The Present Stage of
the National-Liberation Movement of the Arab
Peoples", held in the Prague offices of the PPS
during the Summer of 1963. 77
19. Exchange of Views on "The Socialist World
System of Economy and the Laws Governing
its Development", held in Prague (believed in
early 1964). 78
20. Exchange of Views on the "Problems of the
Nationals; Libe ration Movement of the Arab
Peoples", held in Prague in April 1964. 79
21. Exchange of Views on ''Unity of the Working
Class and Democratic Movement", held in
Prague 16-19 June 1964. 80
22. An International Seminar on the Centenary of
the First International, held in East. Berlin
25-29 September 1964. 81
23. Exchange of Views on the "Role of the Communist
Parties in Some Developed Capitalist Countries",
held in Prague 16-17 March 1965. 82
24. International Meeting Devoted to the 30th
Anniversary of the Seventh Congress of the
Comintern, held in the Prague offices of the
PPS on 21-23 October 1965. 83
25. African Political Seminar, Sponsored Jointly by
the PPS Journal and the Leftist Egyptian Magazine
"Al Talia" held in Cairo, 24-29 October 1966. 84
26. Exchange of Views on "Fight Against State
Monopoly Capitalism, for Peace, Democracy,
and Socialism, and the Place of Reforms. " 86
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APPENDIX C: Identities of Key Communists (By Country) PAGE
Who Have Participated in One or More
PPS Seminars
1.
Algeria
87
2.
Argentina
87
3.
Austria
4.
Belgium
89
90
5.
Bolivia
91
6.
Brazil
91
7.
Bulgaria
8.
Canada
92
9.
Ceylon
94
10.
Chile
94
95
11.
Colombia
97
12.
Cyprus
97
13.
Czechoslovakia
97
14.
Denmark
102
15.
El Salvador
102
16.
Finland
102
17.
France
103
18.
German Democratic Republic
106
19.
Germany (Federal Republic)
110
20.
Great Britain
111
21.
Greece
113
22.
Guatemala
114
23.
Hungary
114
24.
India
115
25.
Iran
116
26.
Iraq
118
27.
Italy
118
28.
Japan
120
29.
Jordan
121
30.
Lebanon
121
31.
Mexico
122
32.
Morocco
123
33.
The Netherlands
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34.
Peru
123
35.
Poland
124
36.
Rumania
125
37.
South African Republic
127
38.
Spain
128
39.
Sweden
128
40.
Syria
129
41.
Tunisia
131
42.
Turkey
131
43.
United States of America
131
44.
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
132
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PROBLEMS OF PEACE AND SOCIALISM (PPS)
(The Monthly Journal of the
International Communist Movement)
1. Origin
A. Background
With the dissolution of the Communist Information Bureau
(Cominform) in 1956, the world Communist movement no longer had
an international publication. The last issue of the Cominformn Journal,
Fora Lasting Peace, For a People's Democracy!, was dated
17 April 1956.
In itself, its demise was small loss to. the world movement,
for few Communist parties (CPs) actually found the Cominform
journal to be of real interest or value. Its cessation, however, came
at a time when other events were seriously shaking the. international
Communist movement. A Soviet rapproc.hiament with TITO was under-
way. KHRUSHCHEV's denunciation of STALIN had staggered the
movement. In Poland the Poznan riots soon erupted and GOMULKA
was returned to power. The Hungarian revolution and its repression
climaxed a shattering period for CPs everywhere.
During 1956 and 1957, several CPs suggested to the Communist
Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) that a new international publication
for the world movement might be a good thing. They argued that the
movement needed such a vehicle for an exchange of views and for a
clearer understanding of problems and events affecting the Communist
movement. To these arguments, CPSU officials are known to have
replied only that the matter was worth considering. Moreover, in
some CPs, including the Italian and Polish parties, the idea clearly
found little favor.
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B. March 1958 Meeting
A decision to create a new international publication was
apparently taken at the November 1957 meeting of the CPs in Moscow,
but no mention of this was included in the statements issued at that
time. And not until March 1958 did some CPs assemble to discuss
specific details of the new publication. On 11 March 1958, a Pravda
article noted: "In accordance with the wishes expressed by represen-
tatives of Communist and workers' parties at the November 1957
meetings in Moscow as to the publication of an international journal,
the representatives of some Communist and workers' parties net
in Prague on March 7 and 8, 1958. The decision to begin shortly the
joint publication in Prague of a monthly theoretical and informative
journal was passed unanimously. The representatives of the parties
founding the journal have declared that all fraternal parties which did
not take part in the meeting under consideration are given the oppor-
tunity to jointhe i pn a footing of equality or take part in the publica-
tion and work for the journal in any other form that suits them".
This restrained announcement (repeated in the newspapers
of several other CPs), a continuing failure to identify any of the
founding CPs, and a complete official silence about the new publication
for two months afterwards created something of an air of mystery.
Actually, one of the difficulties inherent in the decision to create the
new publication was the opposition by some Communists to a new type
organ along the narrow lines of the old Cominform Journal which was
viewed by leading non-Communist personalities such as former Prime
Minister NEHRU of India as a vehicle for the direction of the Communist
parties. Fears that a new publication would result in such an organ
under Soviet control no doubt accounted for the long delay in making
the final decision and for the first cautious steps in organizing the new
publication.
The major tasks of the March 1958 meeting appear to have
been to define the functions of the editorial board of the new publica-
tion and to phrase the final communique. The title or sub-title of the
various language editions tentatively agreed upon (or at least accepted)
was Problems of Peace and Socialism. This name was not announced
at that time, however.
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The Number 4, March 1963 issue of Kommunist carried
an article entitled "International Tribune of Communism" which sheds
some light on the early development of PPS. A translation of the
first paragraph of this article reads as follows: "The periodical
Problems of Peace and Socialism, which is a theoretical and informa-
tion organ of the Communist and workers' parties, has been in
existence for five years. The decision to publish it was made by the
representatives of twenty Communist and workers`' parties at a
meeting held in March 1958. The decision indicated that all other
parties in any form convenient to them could associate themselves
with the publication of the periodical. Since that time the over-
whelming majority of Communist and workers' parties in one way
or another have participated in turning it out. "
. The twenty parties attending the March 1958 meeting
evidently included the twelve bloc CPs plus at least the CPs of
Argentina, Austria, Finland, Federal Republic of Germany, France,
India, Italy, and Great Britain. Of the individuals present, only Ajoy
GHOSH of India was ever identified overtly, and this appeared to be
inadvertently. (The Indian Communist weekly New Age had reported
his departure for the meeting.) One reliable report stated that a
certain number of CPs, apparently representative of various geo-
graphic areas of the world, were "invited" to send representatives
to the conference but that not all were able to do so. The Brazilian
CP was apparently ,one of those unable to attend.
C. Soviet Named as Editor-in-Chief
There were early indications that publication of the first
issue of the new journal had been planned for June 1958. However,
this June 1958 time table could not be met and the deadline for con-
tributions for the first issue was set for 15 June 1958. In mid-May,
A. M.. RUMYANTSEV of the USSR was announced as the editor-in-chief.
The title of the new publication, however, was still not announced.
Not until mid-June did this occur. RUMYANTSEV, one of the CPSU
delegates to the Czechoslovak party congress in June 1958, was then
listed as chief editor of Problems of Peace and Socialism, the new
international Communist publication. He was apparently already in
Prague setting up the new journal.
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D. Secret Conference Held 23 June 1958
One more international CP meeting occurred befo.re the
new publication was to receive the expected advance publicity and
finally to make its appearance. The Czechoslovak party congress
took place 18-21 June 1958, and was attended by an exceptionally large
number of fraternal delegates from other CPs. On 23 June these
delegates attended a secret conference, under the chairmanship of
RUMYANTSEV., at which another discussion of the new publication
took place. The meeting was held in Prague in a former Roman
Catholic seminary and it lasted from 9:00 a. m. until nearly midnight.
While some of the foreign delegates knew in advance that the new
publication would be discussed, few seemed to know much about the
publication or what specific matters would be raised. Much of the
discussion is believed to have centered about the publication of the
different language editions--where these would be printed, what
their formats would be, and how they would be titled. It was also
clear by the time of this June 1958 meeting that the CPSU had
already assigned a number of functionaries to work on the publica-
tion and that its direction and administration was under effective
Soviet control.
E. Initial Issue of Journal Published (September 1958)
After the June 1958 meeting considerable publicity was
given to the new publication. Communist media in many countries
announced its forthcoming appearance, what it would contain and the
different titles it would have. Subscription information was widely
publicized. Finally, in late August, the first edition, dated September
1958, appeared. The first issue was careful to state: This journal
is a joint publication of the Central Committees of the Communist
and workers' parties which took part in the conference of represen-
tatives of certain Communist parties in Prague in March of this year.
It will not be an organ which issues directives. It regards itself as
an international tribune for the exchange of opinions and experiences
between fraternal parties".
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F. Stated Purpose of the New International Communist Journal
The Editorial Board of Problems of Peace and Socialism
(PPS) in the initial September 1958 issue stated "The journal Problems
of Peace and Socialism considers the propagation and further elabor-
ation of Marxist-Leninist theory to be its main task'.;'
"The creative development of Marxist-Leninist theory is
the concern of the Communist and workers' parties of all countries.
All Communist and workers' parties develop revolutionary theory,
enriching it with the experience of hundreds of millions of fighters.
Our journal will be able to fulfill its tasks only if Communists of
all countries take an active part in it.";'
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H. Organizational Structure of PPS
A. Problem of Developing Information Concerning
the PPS Organization
Since its inception, Problems of Peace and Socialism
(PPS) has maintained a certain degree of secrecy about its organ-
ization, staff, personnel, and methods of operation. The difficulty
of obtaining reliable information and the fragmentary nature of some
of the information that has become available leaves a somewhat
incomplete picture of the inside maneuverings and Soviet machinations.
PPS has been particularly careful about protecting the
identities of some of the foreign Communists assigned to the Prague
editorial staff whose national parties operate in illegal conditions or
who have personal reasons to employ aliases. In these instances,
articles written by the permanent representatives and published in
the journal have been signed in pseudonym or by meaningless initials.
B. Headquarters Location
According to a letterhead of PPS dated in March 1964,
the Editorial offices of the "Theoretical and Information Magazine
for the Communist and Workers' Parties, Problems of Peace and
Socialism" are located at Thakurova 3, Prague 6; telephone:
325-731. The headquarters location originally was a church mission-
ary building. It is a four story building approximately 200 feet wide,
and has a copper dome.
The Publishing House of PPS is located at Sadova 3,
Prague 6, Czechoslovakia. The building complex at this address
consists of the following: the former Archbishopric Secondary School,
St. Vojtech Church and the Theological Faculty and Seminary (Roman
Catholic) of Charles University.
The Press Distribution Agency (PDA) otherwise known as
Stredisko pro Rozsirovani Tisku (SRT) or Press Circulation Agency
is located also at Sadova 3, Prague 6, Czechoslovakia.
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C. The Editorial Board - Editorial Council
1. Although the Editorial Board of PPSis the directing
organ, a higher body called the Editorial Council may exist. No
authoritative description of the Editorial Council is available, but it
is quite possible that it is composed of those twenty CPs which were
represented at the founding meeting (and which are still associated
with the journal), plus other parties which may have since affiliated
themselves with the journal. Leaders of these CPs which are repre-
sentedon the Editorial Council, undoubtedly receive invitations when
an Editorial Council meeting is called and such parties would then
select ad hoc representatives to attend such Editorial Council meetings.
It is possible that some CPs may be on the Editorial,:Council without
however, having representatives currently serving on the Editorial
Board or Staff in Prague. Only one Editorial Council meeting is known
to have been held. On 13-16 April 1960, an Editorial Council meeting
in Prague was attended by representatives of thirty- six CPs. Mention
of this meeting was made in the June 1960 issue of the PPS Journal.
It has been reported that a second Editorial Council
meeting was planned to be held in Prague in April 1962 when the
agenda was to have been:
a. The report of the Editorial Council and fulfill-
ment of the ideas of the November 1960
conference of the eighty-one parties.
b. Directives for the future.
Sources however, have been unable to confirm that
this second meeting was ever held.
2. The Editorial Board is apparently the controlling
body of PPS. It is believed, however, that the Editorial Board has
vested considerable authority in the editor-in-chief. Only occasionally
does information become available on the number of CPs actually rep-
resented on the Editorial Board. In 1958 an article in a Hungarian
newspaper noted that "representatives of the Central Committees of
eighteen parties comprise the Editorial Board". Vaclav SLAVIK,
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Executive Secretary of PPS in an interview with Neues Deutschland
(published 15 September 1963) compared the figures of 18 parties
represented in the editorial offices in Prague in 1958 with the 32 in
1963. SLAVIK also said that in September 1963, the number of
parties engaged in publishing the PPS Journal had risen to 36 from
the 1958 figure of 22. In other words there were four parties involved
in helping to publish the PPS Journal in 1963 which did not have per-
manent representatives in Prague. - In. the Fall of 1966 representatives
of a Western CP reportedly visited the headquarters of PPS in Prague
and held a meeting with the PPS staff which consisted of fifty persons
from about forty different countries.
3. Editorial Staff
Below the Editorial Board there is evidently a
fairly complicated editorial organization. The editorial staff members
perform a variety of functions. Some foreign Communists assigned to
the PPS Journal are members of the Editorial Board and others
apparently are only staff members. In many cases where a CP has
sent: a single representative to Prague, it has not been clear whether
the representative is on the Editorial Board or is merely on the staff.
D. Functional Sections
In 1959 a communication from PPS Headquarters to various
CPs revealed the existence of at least eight working staff sections in
the Prague headquarters. The communication was distributed under
a covering letter dated 7 August 1959 and signed by A. RUMYANTSEV
(editor - in- chief).
1. Section for Exchange of Experience in the.
Work of the Party
Concerned with problems of tactics, organization
and training, and with methods of leadership in the Bloc, expressed
in these terms:' (1) "problems of the unity of the working class, broad
class alliances, and the contact of the CPs with the masses;" (2)
"problems pertaining to the organizational and ideological strength-
ening of CPs;" (3) ''problems relating to the development of democracy
within the Party and the improvement of the methods of Party leader-
ship in Socialist countries'.
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2. Philosophy, Sociology and Itistory Section
Concerned with key ideological problems relating to
(1) development of Socialist society, building of Communism, and
"strengthening of the power of the Socialist camp;" (2) "Revisionism
and reformism;" (3) enemy ideology (such as "Ethical Socialism, "
"modern colonialism, " "Modern militarism, " "clerical ideology, "
(religion); and (4) historical questions.
3. World Economy Section
Concerned with "Marxist-Leninist analysis of the
new methods and phenomena of major interest for the international
labor movement in modern capitalist economy." Will provide argu-
mentation and tactical action leads to CPs in industrialized countries.
4. Socialist Countries Section
Concerned with (1) "theoretical and practical problems
of building Communism;" (2) "socialist democracy;" (3) "Advance of
the Socialist countries in a united front toward Communism. " While
undoubtedly serving to generate thinking on these problems within
the Bloc and to develop acceptable formulations, the work of this
section also emphasizes the "positive" virtues of life in the Bloc in
contrast to the defects and evils of capitalism.
5.
Concerned with showing the "influence on international
developments of the Socialist camp and of the workers' movement in
the capitalist countries. " This Section also handles "problems per-
taining to the peace movement. " Whereas the other mass movements
of interest to the international movement are the concern of other
Sections, the "peace movement" is conceived as of more directly
relevant to the foreign policy of the Bloc.
6. National Liberation Movement Section
Concerned with (1) "the national liberation movement
in the colonial and dependent countries as an ally" of the Bloc; (2)
tactical problems of alliances with bourgeois nationalists; and (3)
agrarian reform and the peasant movement.
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7. Workers' and International Democratic
Movement Section
Concerned with tactical action and alliances with
non-Communist "working class" and other "democratic movements
in capitalist countries, " and with elaborating propaganda and action
lines for CP and front work in these fields. Of special interest is
the fact that this section is particularly concerned with "the methods
used in the most important social-democratic parties and in the world
social-democratic movement. "
A report from a source in June 1958 indicated that
one T. TIMOFEYEV (USSR) was identified as being associated with
the Workers' and International Democratic Movement Section. He is
believed to be identical with Timur Timofeyevich TIMOFEYEV who by
1962 was identified as Deputy Director of the Soviet Institute of World
Economics and International Relations. In May 1966 TIMOFEYEV was
identified as the Director of the Institute of the International Workers
Movement.
8. Culture and Science Section
Concerned with (1) "propaganda and creative
elaboration of Marxist-Leninist principles in the field of culture;"
(Z) practical problems of culture in the Bloc; (3) supporting the
line of CPs in capitalist countries "for the development of democratic
culture, for the education of the masses, and against bourgeois influ-
ences in the field of culture;" and (4) "analysis of... cultural develop-
ment in the countries of Asia and Africa. "
Because of lack of further specific information, it is
impossible to report how active these eight sections have been or may
be currently or if there has been any major changes in this organiza-
tional structure.
Probably a function of these sections has been to
organize the various seminars sponsored by PPS and to select and
edit the seminar contributions which are published in PPS.
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It is also impossible to state how assignment of
staff personnel to these sections has been handled. The sections
evidently do have assigned chiefs and deputy chiefs; however, there
is no current information available as to the identities of these
individuals. In September 1958, L. DELYUSIN, a Soviet, was overtly
identified as the "vice chief of the National Liberation Movement
Section" of PPS. (In Pravda 19 September 1961, however, he was
overtly identified as a responsible official of the CPSU's International
Department, and may have left PPS by that time.)
It has been reported that when a proposed article is
received at PPS headquarters, the first step is to send it to the
appropriate area committee. It is not known whether these area
committees fall within one of the above functional sections or not.
The size of the translation staff is also not known although reportedly
it is quite large. Not all translations are done in Prague; there is
some indication that a portion of the translations is done in certain
other countries.
F. Countries Represented or Affiliated with PPS
The CPSU has assigned a considerable number of Soviets
(estimates run as high as thirty) to work on the PPS staff. As to the
number of countries represented, one report received during the
summer of 1965, indicated that there were then in Prague party re:p-
re sentative s from forty-five countries and that the tendency at the
time was to increase that number. In some instances, a particular
CP may have more than one representative so it is not known exactly
how many representatives of CPs are stationed in Prague.
;Based on the information available,) the CPs of the following
forty-eight countries have been more closely involved or affiliated
with PPS operations recently than the CPs of other countries. How-
ever, this does not necessarily imply that each currently has or
formerly had a permanent representative at PPS headquarters in
Prague.
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Algeria
Costa Rica
Hungary
Peru
Argentina
Cyprus
India
Poland
Au% tralia
Czechoslovakia
Indonesia
Rumania
Austria
Denmark
Iran
South Africa
Belgium
East Germany
Iraq
Spain
Bolivia
El Salvador
Italy
Sweden
Brazil
Finland
Japan
Syria
Bulgaria
France
Jordan
Tunisia
Canada
Great Britain
Lebanon
Turkey
Ceylon
Greece
Mexico
United State s
Chile
Guatemala
Mongolia
U. S. U.S.S.R.
Colombia
Honduras
Netherlands
West Germany
Because of the Sino-Soviet rift, Communist China and
North Korea have not had representatives in Prague for some time.
The Albanian language edition wAs discontinued in March 1962, and
the Chinese language edition of PPS was discontinued in late 1962.
The last mention of a Korean language edition was in the July 1963
issue of the PPS Journal. A Vietnamese edition was still being
listed among the various language editions as late as the October 1966
issue of the World Marxist Review; however, there is no indication
that a representative of the Vietnamese CP has recently served in
Prague. For these reasons., Albania, China, North Korea, and
Viet Nam are not indicated in the above country listing.
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III. Editorial Staff of PPS (Soviet Bloc)
The following persons either have been reported to work on
the staff of PPS in Prague, or in a few cases, appear to work on
the staff. Persons, in some instances, who once worked on the
staff but who have since left Prague are also included. While this
list is based on all available information, it is recognized as not
being complete. PPS and the individual CPs involved have been
careful about hiding the identities of many of the staff members
and party representatives stationed in Prague. Appendix C
contains a listing of individuals by country who have attended PPS
seminars and who have written articles for the PPS Journal. It is
possible that some of the individuals listed therein who have engaged
in considerable PPS activity may have at one time or another worked
on the PPS staff.
It is also possible that the Editorial Board of PPS in addition
to employing permanent representatives of CPs for work in Prague
may also have a network of Communist correspondents working on
a local basis who contribute articles to the PPS Journal on a regular
basis. In this connection it is known that the Editorial Board has
employed since 1961 a British Communist correspondent in the United
Kingdom (Hyman FAGAN) who has contributed a number of articles
including "Letter from Brighton" (November 1962), "Letter from
London" (March 1963) and "London Letter" (August 1965)., , It seems
likely that Giuseppe CONATO who contributed "Letter from Berlin"
(November 1961) and B. FERNANDEZ who contributed "Reprisals in
Spain / Letter from Asturias /11 (November 1963) may be similarly
employed as local correspondents.
A. Key Administrative Officials
1. Chief Editor:
Georgiy (Yuriy) Pavlovich FRANTSEV (USSR)
In April 1965, FRANTSEV was announced as
editor-in-chief of PPS replacing A. M. RUMYANTSEV who had
served as editor-in-chief since May 1958. FRANTSEV may have
actually begun his duties before the end of January 1965.
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FRANTSEV was born on 1 October 1903. He graduated
from Leningrad State University in 1924 and for the next seven years
remained at the school as a post-graduate student, a scientist, and
an instructor. In 1953, FRANTSEV became editor of Pravda's foreign
countries department. In 1957, he was promoted to deputy chief
editor of Pravda and in early 1959 FRANTSEV was named Rector
of the USSR Academy of Social Sciences, which position he was
holding at the time of his appointment to the PPS editor-in-chief
position. FRANTSEV has been a candidate member of the Central
Committee of the CPSU since October 1961.
The former editor-in-chief Aleksey Matveyevich
RUMYANTSEV was born in Kostroma, Russia, 3 February 1905.
He was graduated from Kharkov Institute of National Economy in
1926. RUMYANTSEV began work in the apparatus of the CPSU,
Central Committee in 1952, where he remained until 1955. In
November 1955, he was named chief editor of Kommunist, the
theoretical journal of the CPSU, where he served until his appoint-
ment as editor-in-chief of PPS in May 1958 in Prague. Upon leaving
PPS in 1965, RUMYANTSEV accepted the position of editor-in-chief
of Pravda for a short period of time. In September 1965,
RUMYANTSEV became acting academician secretary of the Depart-
ment of Economics, USSR Academy of Sciences. RUMYANTSEV
participated in PPS seminars while serving as editor -in- chief, and
he contributed to the September 1958, August 1959, November 1960,
January 1962, March 1962, July 1962, August 1962, August 1963, and
July 1964 issues of the PPS Journal. RUMYANTSEV has been a Full
Member of the Central Committee of the CPSU since 1952.
The name RUMYANTSEV, room 289, t4elephone
extension 487 appeared under a partial listing of PPS headquarters
personnel in a notebook of a CP representative who served for
several years on the PPS staff in Prague.
2. Editorial Secretary:
Aleksandr Ivanovich SOBOLEV (USSR)
SOBOLEV was identified overtly in October 1961 as
the editorial secretary. In March 1962 he described himself as
executive secretary of PPS. He has also been referred to as the
assistant editor. He evidently replaced V. G. KORIONOV (Vitaliy
Germanovich) in this position, possibly in 1960. He is known to have
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been employed on the Editorial Board since at least February 1961.
(KORIONOV, who is believed to have been the first editorial
secretary of PPS, was overtly identified as an inspector of the
International Department of the CPSU Central Committee in
March 1960. Since then KORIONOV has become deputy chief of
the International Department of the Central Committee of the CPSU.)
Very little information is available concerning
SOBOLEV before 1950. He reportedly was born 4 December 1915.
In October of 1950, SOBOLEV was listed as a member of the editorial
board of the new monthly journal Partiynoe Prosveshcheniye (Party
Education), organ of the Propaganda and Agitation Section of the
Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party. Four years
later, in April 1954, he was listed as an assistant professor when he
spoke to a conference of teachers held at Moscow University. In
February 1956, he was cited as a member of the editorial board of
Kommunist, and in April of the same year he was identified as
deputy editor of the magazine. He may have continued on Kommunist
until his appointment to PPS. The exact date of this appointment is
not clear. Contributions of SOBOLEV appear in the November 1960,
March 1962, November 1962, February 1963, and June 1964 issues of
the PPS Journal.
The name SOBOLEV, room 221, telephone
extension 421 appeared under a partial listing of PPS personnel
in a notebook of a CP representative who served for several years
on the PPS staff in Prague.
The Egyptian Gazette for 26 October 1966 in reporting
on the Cairo PPS seminar identified Dr. Alexander SOBOLEV, as the
executive secretary of PPS. According to the article Dr. SOBOLEV
presented a report on 25 October 1966 to the seminar entitled "Some
Problems of Social Progress in Africa".
3. Deputy Editorial Secretary: Vadim ZAGLADIN (USSR)
ZAGLADIN was identified overtly in April 1962 as
the deputy editorial secretary of PPS. It is not known how long he
had been in this position or if he is still there. On 11 April 1.962, the
Polish newspaper Trybuna Ludu reported on visiting members of
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the PPS editorial board who were in Poland. ZAGLADIN was listed
as one of these board members and identified as deputy editorial
secretary.
ZAGLADIN reportedly is a graduate of the Moscow
Institute for International Affairs having a "major" in history. He
began work as a journalist on the newspaper Trud. (He then worked
for some time with the journal Soviet Artist, then with the newspaper
Red Star and finally again back to Trud.) In October 1958, ZAGLADIN
was an editor of New Times (Novoye Vremya). Contributions by
ZAGLADIN appear in the September 1960, June 1961, May 1962,
September 1962, November 1963, December 1963, and April 1964
issues of the PPS Journal. On 25 May 1966, Professor Vadim
ZAGLADIN spoke to members of the Institut Royal des Relations
Internationales in Brussels. He was described at that time as a
professor of the University of Moscow and an editor of the Soviet
weekly review, New Times.
4. Executive Secretary: Vaclav SLAVIK (Czechoslovakia)
The January 1965 issue of the PPS Journal carried
an article entitled "Socialism and Democracy" written by Vaclav
SLAVIK who was then identified as the executive secretary of PPS.
Apparently SLAVIK became the executive secretary of PPS in 1963,
In an interview with Neues Deutschland (published on 15 September 1963),
SLAVIK was described as a "responsible secretary and member of
the Editorial Board" of PPS.
In June 1961, the Czechoslovak Government announced
several top level changes which included the fact that Va.clav SLAVIK,
a Central Committee (CC) member had been elected a secretary and
member of the CC Secretariat of the Czech CP. This promotion to
new party duties in 1961 probably forced SLAVIK to give up his former
party position as chief of the CC Department of Propaganda and
Agitation. In his former position, SLAVIK had been active abroad,
with the NOVOTNY delegation to Moscow in November 1960 and as
the party delegate to the Sixth Congress of the Indian Communist Party
in April 1961. There is very little information available concerning
the activities of Vaclav SLAVIK as executive secretary of PPS.
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SLAVIK attended the PPS seminar in early 1964 as a PPS represen-
tative. He has contributed to the January 1964, January 1965, and
January 1966 issues of the PPS Journal. SLAVIK represented PPS
at the Cairo seminar 24-29 October 1966, at which time he was
identified as the executive secretary of PPS.
The executive secretary from 1958 to at least 1963
was Frantisek HAVLICEK, also a Czech. He apparently became the
executive secretary in 1958 at the time PPS was founded. HAVLICEK's
duties made him particularly responsible for general distribution and
circulation matters of the publication. He contributed articles to the
March 1959, August 1960, September 1962, and January 1963 issues
of the PPS Journal and participated in several PPS seminars. He also
signed letters to various CPs seeking from them certain articles for
inclusion in the PPS Journal. The name HAVLICEK, Room 217,
Telephone extension 417 appeared under a partial listing of PPS
headquarters personnel in a notebook of a CP representative who
served for several years on the PPS staff in Prague.
5. Manager of Press Distribution Agency (PDA)-
A. NOVAK (Czechoslovakia)
A. NOVAK may be identical with Dr. Antonin NOVAK,
born about 1918 who in 1963 was head of the Press Section of the Czech
Film Company and who in October 1963 reportedly had a conflict with
the director-general of the company for criticizing his selection of
films. It was then rumored that NOVAK would be removed from his
film company position.
It has also been reported that PPS employs an
accountant who may be Gennadiy KOVALENKO since KOVALENKO
was sent to London in 1965 to make a financial inspection when the
editor-in--chief of PPS had become alarmed at the rising cost of
producing and distributing the London, edition of the PPS Journal.
See further mention of KOVALENKO later herein..
It is quite possible that in a few of the following cases, the
Editorial Board of PPS may have merely commissioned an outside
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expert to represent PPS at a particular event and write an article
concerning it. In such an instance the individual would have been
identified as a representative of PPS, even though this was his only
association with the PPS Journal. Where additional facts of longer
association with the PPS Journal are known, they are set forth.
In May 1961, at Royaumont in France, PPS was one
of the sponsors of an international seminar on the subject of social
problems. According to the October 1961 issue of the PPS Journal,
PPS was represented at the seminar by several persons, including
E. ARAB-OGLY. Toward,: the end of 1963, E. ARAB-OGLY was
referred to as a PPS assistant editor for philosophy and sociology.
The October 1958 issue of PPS gave his first name as Edward. He
was born on 13 October 1925 in Tbilisi in the Georgian SSR. He has
contributed to the October 1958, December 1959, May 1960, October
1960, August 1961, March 1962, August 1962, and December 1964 issues
of the PPS Journal.
2. Yuriy A. ARBATOV
In April 1961, ARBATOV attended the congress of
the Communist Party of Great Britain as a correspondent from PPS.
He is believed to be identical with Ye. A. ARBATOV who is listed as
one of the compilers, under O.V. KUUSINEN, of Fundamentals of
Marxism-Leninism. According to one report ARBATOV may have
left PPS at the end of 1962. He has contributed to the June 1960,
October 1960, and April 1962 issues of the PPS Journal.
3. Karen BRUTENTS
This individual represented PPS at the Second Afro-
Asian Peoples' Solidarity Conference in CONAKRY, April 1960, and
at the Eighth National Assembly of the Cuban PSP in August 1960. In
July 1960 the PPS Journal published an article by BRUTENTS on the
Conakry conference. She also contributed to the February 1961 issue
of the PPS Journal. Presumably this is the K.N. BRUTENTS who
wrote "The National Liberation Movement of the Peoples of Asia and
Africa", published in Moscow, 1959. In April 1966, BRUTENTS
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was described as a consultant for the International Department,
CC CPSU.
4. Arkadiy BUKIN
Born 1922 at Bobruysk, USSR. With SOBOLEV and
others from PPS he was to visit the International Institute for Peace
in Vienna in February-March 1963.
In August 1958, CHEPRAKOV identified himself as a
Soviet correspondent from PPS when he sought to visit Belgium. He
was born in 1906.
CHEPRAKOV began to write for Soviet publications
during World War II. During the last years of the War, he wrote
articles about the American economy and war effort. In May 1946,
he signed an article in Red Star using the rank of lieutenant colonel.
Since that time he has written numerous articles and three books on
economic and military questions. He has contributed, to the October
1958 and December 1960 issues of the PPS Journal. He attended the
August-September 1962 PPS seminar.
Lev Petrovich DELYUSIN (DELYUSHIN)
According to KCNA (the North Korean press agency),
one Lev DELYUSIN, "vice chief of the national liberation movement
section of the journal Problems of Peace and Socialism", came to North
Korea in September 1958. According to one report relating to the Spring
of 1960, the Soviet writer DELIUSHIN (sic) had got into trouble once
publishing a booklet in the USSR in which he had praised the Chinese
Communists.
This DELYUSIN is believed identical with the L. P.
DELYUSIN who in November 1961 was overtly identified in Soviet
media as a responsible official of the CPSU's International Department.
L. P. DELYUSIN is believed identical with the L. DELYUSIN who in the
early 1950's had written articles in Pravda and New Times on China.
In September 1952 and January 1953, he had been identified as a Pravda
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correspondent in China. In view of the identification of DELYUSIN
with the International Department in 1961, it is probably that he
left the PPS prior to September 1961.
7. Aleksey GOLYSHKIN
GOLYSHKIN was identified as the director of
publication for PPS in an article appearing in the 11 April 1962 issue
of the Polish publication Trybuna Robotnicza. The article stated
that on 10 April 1962 staff members of PPS attended a meeting of
their. Silesian readers and proceeded to identify those PPS officials
attending including GOLYSHKIN.
In November 1958, one Ahmad ISKANDEROV (sic),
said to be a Czech journalist writing for PPS, was reported to have
arrived in Egypt from Prague. The identification as a Czech evi-
dently stemmed from the fact that he came from Prague.
PPS, January 1960 issue, carried an article by
A. ISKENDEROV, entitled "A Continent in Ferment", which dealt
with Africa. He also contributed to the February 1964, and June
1965 issues of the PPS Journal.
In August 1961, a Soviet historian and orientologist,
A. A. ISKENDEROV, applied for entry to Japan to attend the Seventh
World Conference Against A-and H-Bombs in Tokyo 9-14 August 1961,
as a Soviet delegate. He also attended the Eighth Conference Against
A-and H-Bombs held in Japan in August 1962.
The name ISKENDEROV, room 236, .telephone
extension 436 appeared under a partial listing of PPS headquarters
personnel in a notebook of a CP representative who served for
several years on the PPS staff in Prague.
One KAPYRIN was reported to be working at PPS
in February 1963. He may be identical with Posnutiy Ivanovich,
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born about 1905. From 1958 to 1960 he was "senior specialist" of
Druzhba in Peking. In 1962 he was deputy editor for Socialist
countries on Pravda.
10. Yuriy Fedorovich KARYAKIN
This individual described himself in October 1960
as a journalist working for PPS in Prague. He claimed to still be a
correspondent for PPS in May 1962 when arranging to visit the Inter-
national Institute for Peace in Vienna. He was born 22 July 1930 in
Perm, USSR. He contributed articles for the April 1962, May 1963,
and September 1964 issues of the PPS Journal.
11. Gennadiy Yakovlevich KOVALENKO
This individual was reportedly employed by PPS
in November 1965 and had been a resident in Czechoslovakia since
July 1963. He is believed identical with G. Ya. KOVALENKO, a
candidate member of the CC Komsomol and head of its Political
Education Section in 1962. In February 1963, KOVALENKO was
replaced as editor-in-chief of Moloday Kommunist (Young Communist).
He had held this position since February 1960. KOVALENKO may have
certain financial responsibilities for PPS. See earlier mention of
KOVALENKO under Section III, 5. KOVALENKO was born 7 May 1930
in Grozniy.
. Sergey KOVALEV
KOVALEV was born 11 September 1913. He was
identified in 1961 as an historian and possibly a member of the editorial
staff of PPS at the time he attended the 18th Congress of the Austrian
CP, held in Vienna 1-3 April 1961. One S. KOVALEV contributed to
the May 1964 issue of the PPS Journal. On 16 April 1963 the CP of
Indonesia (P. K. I.) Harian Rakjat reported that an editor of Problems
of Peace and Socialism named KOWALOW (sic) was on a visit to
Indonesia.
The name KOVALEV, room 206, telephone extension
405 appeared under a partial listing of PPS headquarters personnel in
a notebook of a CP representative who served for several years on the
PPS staff in Prague.
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13. Mikhail Vasil'yevich KREMNEV
KREMNEV was a member of a Soviet delegation
to the 20th International Geological Congress in Mexico City in
September 1956. In October 1960, Mikhail KREMNOV was described
by one source as a correspondent for New Times.
Among the journalists accredited to the conference
of non-aligned countries held in Belgrade, in September 1961, was a
Soviet national listed as "Kremnjev V. MIHAIL, editor, Questions
of Peace and Socialism. " This name was obviously transposed in
that listing, and the KREMNJEV reported in Belgrade is believed
identical with KREMNEV.
Mikhail KREMNEV, a member of the CPSU and
a correspondent for PPS was a speaker at the so-called "Workers
Banquet" attended by approximately 1000 workers in Montevideo,
Uruguay on 8 July 1962. This banquet was sponsored by the, CP of
Uruguay and followed the XVIII Party Congress which closed
2 July 1962. KREMNEV was alone in representing the Soviet Union
at this banquet inasmuch as the regular delegation to the congress
had departed from Uruguay on 6 July. KREMNEV explained that
the CPSU had long been interested in Uruguayan efforts toward
agrarian reform, an independent foreign policy and peace. He
described the Moscow Peace and Disarmament Conference as a
"significant example of unity" among the workers of the world.
On 20 November 1963, Mikhail V. KREMNYOV,
editor of PPS was granted a UAR entry visa in Prague. ~-'
He has contributed to the April 1963, August 1963,
January 1964, July 1964, and August 1965 issues of the PPS Journal.
14. Boris Moyseyevich LEYBZON (LEIBSON)
LEYBZON was identified as a representative of PPS
when he attended the Belgian CP Congress in April 1960. He was
born 19 December 1912 in Odessa. On page 14 (Author's Note) of the
book Fundamentals of Marxism-Leninism, one B. M. LEI $QN along
with others was given credit for making contributions to individual
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chapters. LEYBZON was co-author (with Ye. BUGAYEV) of an
article in the April 1959 issue of the PPS Journal, entitled
"Guiding Force in the Advance to Communism..' He also contrib-
uted to the August 1963 and August 1965 issues.
15. Mekmeral Konstantinovich MAMARDASHVILI
Born 25 September 1930 at Gori, USSR. Professor
of Philosophy, reported at one time to be Secretary to RUMYANTSEV
and resident in Czechoslovakia since 1961. Described as editor of PPS
when attending the International Study Convention on Tendencies of
European Capitalism at the Gramsci Institute in Rome in June 1965.
He contributed to the April 1965 issue of the PPS Journal.
16, Kiva MAYDANIK
He described himself as a journalist working for
PPS in Prague in the autumn of 1963. He reportedly was still living.)
in Prague and working for PPS in April 1964; no subsequent informa-
tion is available.
17. Yuriy Konstantinovich OSTROVITYANOV
He described himself as editor on the staff of PPS,
Prague in the autumn of 1961. He attended the PPS seminar held in
late 1961 or early 1962. He contributed to the October 1958, December
1959, July 1960, April 1961, July 1961, and March 1962 issues of the PPS
Journal. Yu. K. OSTROVITYANOV has been deputy editor since 1962
of the publication World. Economics and International Relations of the
Institute for World Economics and International Relations, Academy
of Sciences USSR.
18, Valentin Vladimirovich PESCHANSKIY
He reportedly has been working at PPS headquarters
in Prague since at least January 1966. He was formerly employed,
from at least early 1960 until at least the autumn of 1964, at the
Institute of World Economics and International Relations in Moscow.
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19. Ivan Petrovich PLYSHEVSKIY
A PPS correspondent by this name attended the
Third Afro-Asian Peoples Solidarity Conference in Mosiii in .
February 1963 and was expected to be a member of a delegation
to Indonesia in April 1963. He was born 27 August 1907. He was
identified in March 1964 as an Asian editor for Pravda. He has
authored articles in Red Star, Red Fleet as well as Pravda. He
contributed to the July 1961 issue of the PPS Journal.
20. Gennadiy PUSHEV
Attended the PPS seminar held in Prague (believed
in early 1964) which had an exchange of views on "The Socialist World
System of Economy and the Laws Governing its Development.. "I.
According to the April 1964 issue of the PPS Journal, PUS-iEV was
one of six individuals representing the PPS Journal at this seminar.
One G. PUSHEV along with V. ZAGLADIN wrote
an article for the April 1964 issue of the PPS Journal entitled, "At
a Peasant Congress in Germany.'.' PUSHEV and ZAGLADIN were
correspondents for PPS at the Peasant Congress held in Schwerin,
North Germany, 28 February - 1 March 1964. The April 1964 issue
of the PPS Journal called this Peasant Congress one of the biggest
gatherings of its kind in German history, with 2, 340 delegates and
nearly as many visitors, including a group from Western Germany,
taking part.
21. Boris Sergeyevich RYURIKOV
He was reportedly working for PPS in Prague at the
beginning of 1960. He contributed an article to the January 1960
issue of the PPS Journal. He was a member of a Soviet delegation
attending a European writers meeting in Rome in May 1963 at which
time he was identified as chief editor of the Soviet magazine Foreign
Literature. He visited the United States with a Soviet delegation of
writers from 7 January to 4 February 1965. He was born in 1999
and is a leading Soviet literary critic.
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22. Stepan SALICHEV
He stated that he was on the PPS staff in the autumn
of 1963. He reportedly was born 15 April 1928 at Rostov, USSR and
has been a resident in Czechoslovakia since August 1964.
23. Sergey SEMENOV
In early 1959, one SEMENOV, a Soviet, was reported
to be working on PPS. He functioned at times as a Spanish interpreter,
and was reported in contact with Latin American Communists transiting
Prague.
He may be identical with the S. SEMENOV, who has
written in the December 1961 issue of the PPS Journal a book review
entitled, "Latin American Socialists on a New Course".
In April 1962, Sergey SEMENOV, said to be a PPS
editor, was reported to be visiting Brazil. He was accompanied on
this trip by Pedro Motxa,. LIMA the Brazilian CP representative on
the PPS staff in Prague. One source said that SEMENOV might join
the CPSU's foreign section (International Department) after his return
(evidently from Brazil) to Prague.
In 1961 he described himself as a journalist working
for PPS in Prague. In November 1965 he was apparently still in
Prague and working for PPS. He contributed articles to the August
1961 and February 1963 issues of the PPS Journal.
In May 1961, at Royaumont in France, PPS was one
of the sponsors of an international seminar on the subject of social
progress. According to PPS, October 1961, PPS was represented at
the Seminar by F. HAVLICEK, J. KANAPA, A. SOBOLEV, Ye.
SITKOVSKIY, and E. ARAB-OGLY. SITKOVSKIY was described as
a professor at Moscow University at the time he attended the 1961
PPS seminar at Royaumont, France.
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He is undoubtedly the Ye. P, SITKOVSKIY whose
contribution appeared in the November 1962 issue of the PPS Journal.
According to the Authors' Note on page 14 of the
book Fundamentals of Marxism-Leninism, the book was compiled
by a group of scholars, Party officials, and publicists. The bulk
of the work was accomplished by a group of authors led by Otto V.
KUUSINEN and composed of Yuriy A. ARBATOV, A. S. BELYAKOV,
S.L. VYGODSKIY, A. A. MAKAROVSKIY, A. G. MILEYKOVSKIY,
Y.P. SITKOVSKIY, and L. M. SHEYDIN.
26. Aleksandr VEBER
Resident in Czechoslovakia from February 1963.
One of a group from PPS visiting Austria in October 1963.
Born 21 March 1929. Represented PPS. at the National
Congress of the Communist Party of Norway (N. K.P.) in Oslo in
March 1965.
Possibly. identical with the A. V EBE#t, whose article
"Communists and Social Democrats" appeared in Pravda of
4 February 1965. He reportedly stated in the autum 1965 t1 at he
was on the PPS staff. He contributed an article to the July 1965 issue
of the PPS Journal which described him as a Soviet journalist.
Yuriy ZHILIN
According to a source in October 1960, K t.EMNEV
remarked that a number of persons from New Times had been sent
to Prague to work on starting a new magazine called PPS. These
included "Mr. ZHILIN", the ideological boss of New Times. This
may be Yuriy Aleksandrovich ZHILIN, born 17 June 1927.
Yu. ZHILIN was co-author with ZAGLADIN of an
article in the September 1960, PPS Journal entitled "International
Developments, Summer 1960". Other contributions appear in the
September 1961 and January 1962 issues.
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C. Other Bloc Personalities on PPS Staff
1. Helene (Lene) BERG
(German Democratic Republic-East Germany)
She is also reported as WESER-BERG and was born
10 April 1906 at Mannheim.
As of March 1961, BERG, a member of the Central
Committee of the Socialist Unity Party (SED) of the German Demo-
cratic Republic was reported to be the Party representative on the
staff of PPS. She attended the May 1962 and October 1965 PPS seminars.
Her contributions appear in the October 1962, March 1.963, and August
1963 issues of the PPS Journal. The PPS Information Bulletin #61
dated 8 December 1965 identified her as a member of the CC, SED and
one who attended the historic 1935 Seventh Congress of the Comintern
held in Moscow.
The name BERG, 'room 223, ,t'elephone extension
423 appeared under a partial listing of PPS headquarters personnel
in a notebook of a CP representative who served for several years on
the PPS staff in Prague.
Andras GEDO (Hungary)
GEDO attended the PPS seminar held in Prague
(believed in early 1964) which had an exchange of views on "The
Socialist World System of Economy and the Laws Governing its
Development.'" According to the April 1964 issue of the PPS Journal,
Andras GEDO was one of six individuals who attended the seminar as
representatives of the PPS Journal.
A. GEDO along with V. RUML contributed an article
to the March 1966 issue of the PPS Journal entitled "Leninism and
Research in Contemporary Philosophy.'! He was born 4 May 1932.
The name GEDE, room 234, telephone extension 444,
appeared under a partial listing of PPS headquarters personnel in a
notebook of a CP representative who served for several years on the
PPS staff in Prague.
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3. Antonin HORAK (Czechoslovakia)
Born 7 April 1921. :: ,
Probably identical with the Antonio GORAK who,
with BRUTENTS, attended the Eighth National Assembly of the Cuban
PSP on behalf of PPS. Was one of the PPS group visiting Austria in
October 1963.
The name .HORAK, x..oom 71, '-telephone extension 571
appeared under a partial listing of PPS headquarters personnel in a
notebook of a CP representative who served for several years on the
PPS staff in Prague.
Jozef KOWALCZYK (Poland)
By early 1958 KOWALCZYK was known to be editor-
in-chief of the authoritative Polish political weekly Swiat i Polska. In
May 1958 he was scheduled to become a member of the Polish Embassy
staff in Prague with the rank of Minister Plenipotentiary and, while
retaining his editorship of Swiat i Polska was to organize political
participation on the PPS Journal. By the summer of 1958 KOWALCZYK
was established as the Polish representative on the PPS staff.
KOWALCZYK was born 10 April 1903 in Stanislawow, Poland of a
Jewish family named GEBER. He has long been active in the Communist
movement in Poland and has held key Party positions.
Miroslav LAB (Czechoslovakia)
Born 30 October 1917 at Brno. Editor or journalist.
Was to accompany SOBOLEV on a visit to the International Institute for
Peace in Vienna in February-March 1963. Was one of the PPS group
visiting Austria in October 1963. Contributed to the September 1959,
April 1961, January 1962, October 1962, December 1962, March 1963,
July 1963, January 1964 and January 1965 issues of the PPS Journal.
6. Ion POPESCU-PUTURI (Rumania)
At the congress of the CP Belgium in April 1960,
Ion POPESCU-PUTURI, a Rumanian, came from Prague as one of
the representatives of PPS. His date of birth was given as
26 May 1906.
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7. Asen Todurova TOHARAKCHIEV (Bulgaria) _
He was described as a member of the Editorial
Board of PPS in 1963 and appears to have been associated with the
Editorial Board until at least 1965.
He was born 19 July 1911 at Gotze Delchev. He was
a resident in Czechoslovakia from January 1963. Identified as a
member of the Editorial Board of PPS in a TASS report of
22 August 1964 on the death of TOGLIATTI.
Barbu ZAHARESCU (Rumania)
Member, with SLAVIK, of the PPS delegation at
the Eleventh Congress of the PCI in Rome in January 1966. He attended
the September 1961, August-September 1962, and early 1964 PPS
seminars. He contributed to the November 1961 and October 1965
issues of the PPS Journal. The October 1965 issue of the PPS
Journal described him as a member of the CC, CP of Rumania.
The name ZAHARECKU, i oom 152, telephone
extension 352 appeared under a partial listing of PPS headquarters
personnel in a notebook of a CP representative who served for several
years on the PPS staff in Prague.
9. Leon ZIELENIEC (Poland)
In 1962, Leon ZIELENIEC of Poland was overtly
identified as a member of PPS' editorial board. On 11 April 1962,
the Polish newspaper Trybuna Ludu reported on visiting members
of the PPS editorial board in Poland. ZIELENIEC was identified as
a board member and as the representative of the Polish party. In
1958, Josef KOWALCZYK was reported as the Polish representative
on PPS. He was subsequently replaced and became a deputy chief of
the Polish Party's foreign section. ZIELENIEC contributed to the
May 1965 issue of the PPS Journal which identified him as a member
of the Central Auditing Commission, Polish United Workers' Party.
ZIELENIEC, along with SLAVIK, FREED, and NOERLUND repre-
sented PPS at the International Study Convention on Tendencies of
European Capitalism at the GRAMSCI Institute in Rome on
25-27 June 1965.
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10. Jiri ZUZANEK (Czechoslovakia)
He was born in Peking on 29 July 1935 and was
described in May 1963 as a PPS editor who had visited Denmark,
Iceland, and the United Kingdom. He contributed articles to the
July 1961 and July 1965 issues of the PPS Journal. The latter
issue described him as a Czechoslovak journalist.
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IV. Editorial Staff Members of PPS (Free World)
As indicated earlier, the PPS and the individual CPs and
Workers' parties have been careful to conceal in many instances,
the identities of the party representatives permanently assigned
to work on the editorial staff of PPS. We have received informa-
tion from various sources, however, which has assisted in positive
or circumstantial identifications of a number of permanent party
representatives from twenty-three countries who have served at
one time or another in Prague on the PPS staff. The information
concerning these individuals is set out below. We have listed a
larger number of individuals in Appendix C (by country) who have
also evidenced close connections with PPS through attendance at
PPS seminars and who have contributed articles to the PPS Journal.
Although most of these individuals listed in Appendix C are not
believed to have actually worked on the PPS staff in Prague, there
is the possibility that a few of them may have served on the PPS
staff in Prague or served as a local PPS correspondent. Joint
authorship of articles appearing in the PPS Journal especially with
an independently identified member of the PPS staff in Prague may
indicate membership on the PPS staff. A case in point is the article
appearing in the January 1966 issue entitled "Unity of Action is a
Vital Need of Our Time" written by F. ANTON, A. FERRARI and
V. SLAVIK. We have information from other sources that
A. FERRARI and V. SLAVIK were on the PPS staff at that time
which would indicate the Francisco ANTON, member of the CC CP
of Spain may also be on the PPS staff.
Since we have made a considered effort to standardize the
names of the individuals (see preface), the names appearing below
and in Appendix C may often vary from the spellings appearing in
the English language and other language editions of the PPS publi-
cations. It will also be noted that a number of the permanent CP
representatives in Prague are or have been top ranking CP members
of their respective parties.
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A. Listings by Country
1. ARGENTINA
Paulino GONZALEZ Alberdi
Attended the PPS seminars held in May 1959 and
September 1961, and has contributed to the following issues of the
PPS Journal: September 1958, July 1959, September 1959,
December 1959, December 1960, August 1961, April 1962, and
August 1963. A report received in April 1960 indicated that
GONZALEZ Alberdi had been living in Prague for two years and
was on the PPS Board. He is obviously identical with the P. G. A.
whose short piece on The Lessons of the Argentina Elections"
appeared in the June 1960 issue of the PPS Journal. He is a member
of the staff of Nueva Era, publication of the CP of Argentina.
Alberto FERRARI
Attended the PPS seminars in June 1964 and September
1964. He contributed jointly to the January 1965 and January 1966
issues of the PPS Journal. These contributions indicate that FERRARI
probably replaced GONZALEZ as the PPS representative sometime in
1964. FERRARI is a member of the CC CP of Argentina according to
the January 1966 issue of the PPS Journal. Alberto FERRARI was one
of the four PPS staff members who were killed when a Bulgarian air-
liner crashed in Czechoslovakia on 24 November 1966, according to
the 26 November 1966 issue of Pravda. The plane was flying from
Sofia to Prague.
Karl (Sascha) RABINOWITSCH
In early July 1958, it was reported that this individual
had moved to Prague. He had been the former Moscow correspondent
of Volksstimme (newspaper of the Austrian CP). He was reported in
February 1961 to be associated with the PPS editorial board in Prague.
However, in 1962, it was reported that this individual was employed
by the Communist-controlled publishing house, Globus, located in
Vienna.
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Ramiro OTERO Lugones
A report indicated that OTERO was assigned to PPS
headquarters in the summer of 1965. He is one of the three leaders
of the CP of Bolivia (pro-Soviet). He reportedly is still assigned in
Prague as the representative of the CP of Bolivia.
Fund SAAD
By April 1959 the Brazilian CP had sent Fued SAAD
as its first representative to Prague to work on the PPS staff. His
work was described as the head of the Brazilian Section of the Journal.
In early 1960 his address was reported to be:
Kohevova 153-2nd A-6, Praha 11 (The Kohevova probably should read
Konevova).
It is known that SAAD used at least one pseudonym
in writing for PPS. He was the Frederico SA who wrote a book review
in the March 1960 issue, entitled "Foreign Capital in Brazil". Report-
edly, he became unhappy with his position in Prague and returned to
Brazil in August 1960. SAAD is a high-level member of the Brazilian
CP (PCB).
By April 1961, this individual was sent to Prague as
the new Brazilian CP representative. He attended the September 1961,
May 1962, December 1962, January 1963, June 1964, and September
1964 PPS seminars.
He contributed to the February 1962, June 1962,
October 1962, November 1963, September 1964, May 1965, June 1965,
August 1965, and November 1966 issues of the PPS Journal.
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In March 1962, LIMA reportedly made a trip to Brazil
accompanying Sergey SEMENOV who was described as a Soviet editor
of PPS. LIMA was described in the August 1965 issue of the PPS
Journal as a Brazilian journalist.
Pedro Motta LIMA was one of the four PPS staff
members who were killed when a Bulgarian airliner crashed in
Czechoslovakia on 24 November 1966, according to Pravda.
The Canadian CP has changed its representative in
Prague on four occasions.
This man, a member of the party secretariat, was
sent to Prague in 1958 (he returned home in 1960). In October 1965,
DEWHURST was again assigned to Prague replacing Norman FREED.
DEWHURST attended the PPS seminar held near the end of 1958. He
contributed articles to the August 1959, August 1960, June 1964,
March 1966, and August 1966 issues of the PPS Journal. The March
1966 issue described him as a member of the National Executive
Committee, CP of Canada.
Harry GURALNICK and his wife
Annie Sylvia Buller GURALNICK
These individuals replaced DEWHURST in 1960. Both
GURALNICKs were elected to the Central Committee of CP of Canada
in January 1962. Annie S. BULLER attended the May 1962 PPS seminar
on "The Role of Women in Modern Society.'.' Harry GURALNICK con-
tributed to the September 1960 and February 1962 issues of the PPS
Journal. Annie S. BULLER contributed to the July 1962 issue.
In mid-1962, FREED, accompanied by his wife, was
sent to Prague as the new Canadian CP representative. He attended
the August-September 1962 and September 1964 PPS seminars, in
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each instance along with Tim BUCK, National Chairman of the
Canadian CP. He contributed to the September 1962, April 1963,
May 1963, July 1963, August 1963, March 1964, December 1964,
March 1965, July 1965, and August 1966 issues of the PPS Journal.
The March 1965 issue described FREED as a member of the National
Committee, CP of Canada. FREED was officially accredited as a
PPS delegate to the New Zealand CP Congress which was held during
the Easter week-end in 1963. FREED is_.currently National Educa-
tion Director of the CP of Canada. In May 1966 at the CP of Canada
National Convention, FREED was elected to the National Executive
Committee.
6. COLOMBIA
Jose CARDONA Hoyos
A report received in February 1964 indicated that
this individual went to Prague in May 1963 to work for PPS. He
contributed to the February 1959, October 1963, and October 1964
issues of the PPS Journal. He is a member of the CC of the Colom-
bian CP (PCC).
DELGADO was scheduled to replace CARDONA in
August 1965 and reportedly left Bogota on 21 August 1965 enroute to
Prague. Contributed to the March 1966, September 1966, and November
1966 issues of the PPS Journal. The November 1966 issue described
him as a member of the CC CP of Colombia. The joint article by
DELGADO with J. M. FORTUNY and M. SALIBI in the March 1966
issue further indicates that DELGADO had taken up his PPS post in
Prague.
Luciano FERRETO Segura
Attended the September 1964 PPS seminar. Con-
tributed to the January 1965, and June 1966 issues of the PPS Journal..
The January 1965 issue described him as a Costa Rican journalist.
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FERRETO reportedly had been the Party representative in Prague
during the 1964-1966 period. He was first scheduled to be replaced
in the fall of 1965. It was recently learned that Luciano FERRETO
had left Prague by September 1966 and that he was living in Cuba.
The actual date he left Prague is not known.
The CP of Costa Rica has had considerable diffi-
culty in assigning a replacement for Luciano FERRETO Segura in
Prague. First Humberto VARGAS Carbonelli was selected, however,.
he was too badly needed in Costa Rica. Later Alvardo MONTERO Vega
was selected; however, in late November 1966 it was decided he would
not go.
Kjeld OESTERLING-NIELSEN
In early 1963, this individual reportedly was attached
to PPS headquarters in Prague. K. ESTERLING (sic) attended the
June 1961 PPS seminar. He attended the August-September 1962
seminar according to New Times No. 38, 19 September 1962.
K. OESTERLING also attended the June 1964 PPS seminar. He
contributed to the February 1962, July 1962, January 1963, and
July 1965 issues of the PPS Journal. The latter issue described
him as a Danish journalist. He may have gone to Prague as early
as 1959.
Roque Antonio DALTON Garcia
DALTON is a leading El Salvadoran Communist and
one of the party intellectuals. Reportedly DALTON has been in Prague
since the latter part of 1964 and works on the PPS publication. He
contributed an article to the March 1966 issue of the PPS Journal
which described him as a "Salvador writer".
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10. FRANCE
Roger GARAUDY
A report received in June 1958 indicated that GARAUDY
had left Paris for Prague to be the French member-editor of PPS.
R. GARAUDY contributed to the October 1960 and December 1961 issues
of the PPS Journal. GARAUDY was a professor and is considered to be
the leading theoretician of the French CP.
In January 1960, this individual was identified as the
French CP representative to PPS. According to the October 1961
issue of the PPS Journal, the PPS was represented at the May 1961
PPS seminar at Royaumont by several individuals including J. KANAPA.
This would indicate that KANAPA was on the PPS staff as of 1961. He
contributed to the May 1959, March 1960, January 1962, and May 1962
issues of the PPS Journal. He is a member of the CC of the CP of
France.
11. GREAT BRITAIN
He was working in Prague before October 1958, but
did not become the accredited CP of Great Britain representative on
the PPS staff until March 1959. Before going to Prague, GIBBONS
had worked for the Daily Worker (newspaper of the CP of Great
Britain) in Moscow. GIBBONS contributed to the October 1958,
March 1959, November 1959, September 1961, July 1962, October 1962,
May 1963, June 1963, August 1963, April 1965, June 1965, February
1966 and September 1966 issues of the PPS Journal. GIBBONS was
described in the February 1966 issue as a British journalist.
Hyman FAGAN
In addition to GIBBONS the permanent representative
in Prague, the PPS Editorial Board has employed since 1961 a British
Communist local correspondent in the United Kingdom. FAGAN has
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contributed articles to the March 1961, January 1962, November 1962,
March 1963, June 1963, November 1963, January 1964, September 1964,
August 1965, July 1966, and November 1966 issues of the PPS Journal.
In early 1960, it was reported that this individual was
employed by PPS in Prague. He reportedly used the pseudonym
Julio FLORES. During the summer of 1962, ALVARADO returned to
Guatemala. He is a member of the CC of the CP of Guatemala.
Hugo BARRIOS Klee
It was reported that this individual, with his wife, left
about November 1961 to replace ALVARADO on the PPS staff. He con-
tributed to the November 1962 and March 1964 issues of the PPS Journal.
He is a member of the CC of the CP of Guatemala.
The joint authorship by this individual of articles in
the January 1965, November 1965, and March 1966 issues of the PPS
Journal suggests that he may have been on the PPS staff during this
period. In March 1966 it was reported that this individual had been
removed from the CC CP of Guatemala and was living in exile in Cuba.
He contributed to the November 1966 issue of the PPS Journal which
identified him as a Guatemalan journalist.
He was sent to Prague as the Honduras CP repre-
sentative on the PPS staff in April 1959. He reportedly used the
pseudonym Juan PASTRANA in Prague. He was listed under his
true name as attending the September 1964 and October 1965 PPS
seminars. He contributed to the May 1965 issue of the PPS Journal
which described him as a Honduran writer. The PPS Information
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Bulletin #61 dated 8 December 1965 described him as a member of
the CC of the CP of Honduras. One Amador Adaya was listed as
attending the seminar on "The Role of Women in Modern Society"
held in May 1962. This is probably a garble of the true name of
Ramon AMAYA Amador. AMAYA is a former editor of El Cronista.
In September 1961, one of the two PPS representatives
who attended the Congress of the North Korean Party was listed as
Ayan Amador of the "editorial council" of PPS. This was probably
another garble of AMAYA Amador.
Ramon AMAYA Amador was one of the four PPS staff
members who was killed when a Bulgarian airliner crashed in Czecho-
slovakia on 24 November 1966 according to Pravda.
Gangadhar Moreshwar ADHIKARI
In June 1958, it was reported that G. M. ADHIKARI
might possibly replace Nikhil CHAKRAVARTY as the Indian staff
member of PPS in Prague. In early July 1958, it was reported that
ADHIKARI had been selected and he was scheduled to depart for
Prague in mid-August 1958. G. ADHIKARI contributed to the November
1964 issue of the PPS Journal. He is a member of the Executive
Committee and Central Secretariat of the CP of India (right-wing). At
the present time he resides in India and heads the CP of India Interna-
tional Department.
Nikhil CHAKRAVARTY
This individual is a journalist and reportedly joined
the CP of India while in London during the years 1936-1939. It was
reported in April 1.958 that he was leaving for Prague on 7 May 1958
to join the staff of PPS. It is known that CHAKRAVARTY has not
resided in Prague for years.
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SUHAR DJO
This individual contributed an article to the January
1965 issue of the PPS Journal which described him as an Indonesian
publicist. In February 1963, an Indonesian by the same name was
reported to be an editor on the staff of PPS in Prague. He was reported
to be still (or again) with PPS in the summer of 1965. Presumably this
same SUHARDJO who was described as a journalist attended the World
Peace Conference in Helsinki in July 1965 and the Havana Conference in
January 1966. The name SUHARDZO, r'.oom 143, telephone extension
343, appeared under a partial listing of PPS headquarters personnel in
a notebook of a CP representative who served at PPS headquarters in
Prague for several years.
A notebook belonging to a CP representative who
served for several years on the PPS staff in Prague contained a
partial listing of the last names of a number of individuals on the
PPS staff. Among the names listed was "Avanesjan", room 247,
telephone extension 477. It is believed that this listing refers to
Ardeshir OVANESSIAN who has been in exile from Iran for many
years. In 1961, he reportedly was a member of the Central Committee
of the Tudeh Party (CP of Iran). OVANESSIAN attended the September
1961, late May 1962, December 1962, January 1963, and June 1964 PPS
seminars. He contributed to the July 1962, and September 1962 issues
of the PPS Journal.
Aziz al-Haj 'ali HAYDAR
Attended the September 1960, September 1961, May
1962, December 1962, January 1963, and April 1964 seminars. He
contributed to the March 1961, November 1962, November 1963,
December 1963, March 1964, April 1964, January 1965, October 1965,
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and April 1966 issues of the PPS Journal. He is a CP of Iraq Polit-
buro member and had been a resident in Prague since December 1961.
A report in April 1966 indicated he had been dropped from the PPS
staff. He reportedly had returned to Iraq in June 1966. It is noted
that the CP of Iraq openly announced in December 1964 that it had a
representative in Prague on the PPS staff.
Lamice Najim Abd-al Razzak HUSAYN (L. HUSSEIN)
This individual was reported on several occasions
during 1965 as working for PPS in Prague, and was said to be employed
in the Arab Department. She contributed to the October 1964 and March
1965 issues of the PPS Journal.
Aldo Enrico VERCELLINO
This individual, a former official of the CP of Italy
Foreign Section, and his wife, Rosalie OSLANSKI, reportedly went
to Prague near the end of September 1958, and in 1960 they were still
there. He contributed to the July 1960, December 1960, and March 1.961
issues of the PPS Journal. In May 1962, it was reported that VERCELLINO
was to return to Rome to another post.
Luciano GRUPPI
GRUPPI reportedly went to Prague some time in 1958
and returned to Italy in July 1959. In December 1961 he was again re-
ported in Prague concerned with the PPS publication. He attended the
August-September 1959, the January 1963, and the June 1964 PPS sem-
inars. He contributed to the October 1958, December 1959, and
January 1960 issues of the PPS Journal. He is Vice President of the
Central Control Commission of the Italian CP (PCI)
Michele ROSSI
ROSSI appears to have taken up his post in Prague in
.July 1961, He had been acting as deputy head of the PCI Foreign
Section. In October 1962, it was reported that the Directorate of
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the Italian CP had decided to recall from Prague its representatives
on the editorial staff of PPS. This decision was a result of dis-
agreements with other CPs on the future line of the PPS Journal
on its international policy. Only Michele ROSSI, a senior repre-
sentative of the Italian CP, was allowed to remain in Prague. On
11 April 1962, the Polish newspaper Trybuna Ludu reported on
members of the PPS Editorial Board who were then visiting in
Poland. ROSSI was identified as the representative of the CP of
Italy on the Editorial Board. Like GRUPPI, ROSSI was reported
to spend time in Rome and not to stay permanently in Prague. It
is believed that ROSSI was still in Prague as the sole PCI represen-
tative as late as November 1963.
19. JAPAN
Itaru YONEHARA
Went to Prague in mid-1959 as the Japanese repre-
sentative to PPS. According to a press story at the time, this job
was held before by Teru TAKAKURA. YONEHARA attended the PPS
seminar at the end of 1958 in Rome, and also the seminars held in
late May 1962 and August-September 1962. He contributed to the
September 1962 issue of the PPS Journal. YONEHARA reportedly
temporarily returned to Japan suddenly in mid-April 1963 at the
time the Japanese CP started to openly criticize the PPS for its
failure to publicize the Chinese side in the Sino-Soviet rift. According
to the New China News Agency of 6 May 1964, YONEHARA returned to
Prague after a visit to China. Reportedly he left Prague for return to
Japan in December 1964. YONEHARA is a member of the CC of the
CP of Japan. He now resides in Tokyo.
Shigeho KAJITA
It was reported in November 1964 that KAJITA was
scheduled to replace YONEHARA on the PPS staff in Prague.
According to the 26 November 1966 issue of Pravda, Shigeho KAJITA
was one of four PPS staff members who was killed when a Bulgarian
airliner crashed in Czechoslovakia on 24 November 1966. The CP of
Japan on 26 November 1966 confirmed the death of KAJITA stating that
KAJITA, age 63 had been staying in Prague since last year as editor
of a Communist magazine.
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Teru TAKAKURA
This individual reportedly was the Japanese PPS
representative prior to mid-1959. He is also a member of the CC
of the CP of Japan.
20. LEBANON
Georges BATTAL
In January 1966 the CP of Lebanon was said to have
sent Georges BATTAL to represent it at PPS in Prague. In late 1965
a report indicated that BATTAL spent half of the year outside LEBANON.
He contributed to the June 1966 issue of the PPS Journal which issue
described him as an alternate member of the CC, Lebanese CP.
21, THE NETHERLANDS
Joost MORRIEN
From October 1958 MORRIEN (born 4 May 1928)
was employed at PPS headquarters. In August 1962 it was reported
that MORRIEN, the Dutch CP representative to PPS in Prague,
had been ill with yellow jaundice since May 1962. He reportedly
was a PPS representative to the Congress of the CP of Chile which
was held in the spring of 1962. He contributed to the December 1964
issue of the PPS Journal. In October 1963, it was reported that
MORRIEN, who had been the representative on the PPS staff since
October 1958, had returned to The Netherlands and had joined the
editorial staff of De Waarheid. The name MORRIEN, -room 149,
telephone extension 349 appeared under a partial listing of PPS
headquarters personnel in a notebook of a CP representative who
served for several years on the PPS staff in Prague. In 1964
MORRIEN allegedly went to Indonesia to work with Harian Rakjat,
the central organ of the Indonesian CP.
Arthur Jacobus Gerrit PORCK
On 11 November 1958 PORCK left Amsterdam by
plane for Prague. Inasmuch as PORCK had acted as a translator
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for the Dutch edition of the Cominform paper, it was presumed that
PORCK, a member of The Netherlands CP had travelled to Prague
in connection with PPS. Apparently, in 1960, PORCK was still
involved in Dutch translating for The Netherlands PPS Dutch edition.
22. SPAIN
Santiago ALVAREZ Gomez
In October 1958 ALVAREZ of the Spanish CP was
reported to be leaving Mexico for Prague. He was the leader of the
Spanish CP in Mexico and had just been raised to the Politburo of the
Spanish CP. He attended the June 1961 PPS seminar, the May 1962
PPS seminar on "The Role of Women in Modern Society", and the
June 1964 PPS seminar. He contributed to the February 1959, March
1961, January 1962, October 1962, June 1963, December 1963, and
June 1965 issues of the PPS Journal. The June 1965 issue described
ALVAREZ as a member of the Executive Committee of the CP of
Spain. He reportedly represented PPS at the Swedish CP Congress
in Stockholm in January 1964.
23. SYRIA
Murad QUWWATLI
He attended the PPS seminar in April 1964. He
contributed to the January 1964 issue of the PPS Journal. He is a
member of the CC of the CP of Syria. An overt report in September
1964 indicated that this individual was serving on the PPS staff in
Prague. QUWWATLI may have been working for PPS since early
1962. He was replaced by Maurice SALIBI, and reportedly returned
to Syria in September 1965.
Maurice SALIBI
Articles have been contributed to the November 1965
and March 1966 issues of the PPS Journal by this individual who is
reportedly a member of the CP of Syria, Central Committee. This
would further help to substantiate the report that he has taken over
the PPS work of QUWWATLI.
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Mustafa AMIN
A report in 1959 placed AMIN in Prague, and. as
being on the Editorial Board of the PPS. In early 1960 another report
stated he was living in Prague and was on the staff of the PP5S. He
is an overt member of the CC of the CP of Syria. He returned to
Syria from Prague in 1962. He was a member of the World Peace
Bureau in 1958-1959. He contributed to the December 1962 issue of
the PPS Journal.
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V. Publications of PPS
A. Monthly Journal - Problems of Peace and Socialism (PPS)
English Edition - World Marxist Review (WMR)
The first issue of the monthly PPS Journal was published
in September 1958 and it has been published regularly ever since. The
initial issue stated that the Journal "regards itself as an international
tribune for the exchange of opinions and experiences between fraternal
parties". The September 1966 issue of WMR indicates that the monthly
journal is published in the following 19 languages:
English - 2 editions
French - 3 editions
Russian
Portuguese (Brazilian)
Bulgarian
Singhalese (Ceylonese)
Czechoslovak
Dutch
German - 3 editions
Greek (Cypriot)
Hungarian
Italian
Japanese
Mongolian
Polish
Rumanian
Spanish - 5 editions
Swedish
Vietnamese
In addition to the above 19 language regular editions there
are, or have been, some local periodicals consisting solely or
largely of selected articles from the PPS Journal. These include:
Danish: Verden Rundt
Finnish: Rauhan ja Sosialismia Ongelmia
Norwegian: Teori Og Informasjon
Persian: International Problems (in Persian)
Arabic: Al Wagt, published in Beirut
Al-Mabadi, circulated from Morocco
Reportedly, there are, or have been similar Greek and
Turkish editions. As indicated earlier, three other language editions
formerly existed (Chinese, Albanian, and Korean), however, they
were discontinued in 1962-1963 because of the Sino-Soviet rift.
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See Appendix A for a listing of the actual titles of the
language editions as well as the locations of local publishers and/or
distribution centers.
1. Printing and Distribution of Monthly Journal
On 11 April 1962, an article appeared in the news-
paper Trybuna Robotnicza, published in Katowice, Poland. According
to the article, staff members of Problems of Peace and Socialism had
arrived in Poland on 10 April 1962 to attend a meeting of their Silesian
readers. Among those attending were Aleksandr SOBOLEV,
secretary of the publication, Aleksey GOLYSHKIN, director of the
publication and Vadim ZAGLADIN, its deputy-secretary. The article
further stated that Problems of Peace and Socialism is published sim-
ultaneously in twenty-two countries, printed in twenty-two languages
(500, 000 copies), and distributed in 132 countries.
The publication of the Italian CP (PCI) Rinascita of
2 June 1962 quoted some figures on production. According to the
article over 385, 000 copies were printed in some 25 languages in
32 countries and distributed in 135 countries. Seventy per cent. of
these copies were sold in the Bloc countries and thirty per cent in
capitalist countries. Sales in Italy were stationary at 3, 000 compared
with around 5, 000 in France, 2, 000 in Sweden and 1, 400 in The Nether -
lands.
On 10 October 1962 Neues Deutschland reported that
PPS was appearing in 25 languages in 32 countries. On 15 September 1963,
Vaclav SLAVIK, Executive Secretary of PPS, gave the same number
of language editions (25) but said that 36 parties were then issuing the
Review, which was distributed in more than 130 countries,
An advertisement appeared in the PPS Information
Bulletin #65 dated 18 February 1966, which stated that the monthly
journal of the PPS is "edited in Prague, it has correspondents on all
continents, is published in thirty-three countries in twenty-five lan-
guages and is read. in 137 countries. Leading Communists the world
over contribute to its pages."
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Since the actual printing of the various language
editions of the PPS Journal is carried out in many countries through-
out the world and not centrally in Prague, it is extremely difficult to
verify the total number of copies currently being published. The
conflicting total figures (385, 000 and 500, 000) quoted in 1962 cannot
be positively confirmed; however, it does not appear that the 385, 000
figure has been grossly exaggerated.
For example in 1966 the following information was
reported concerning one small Latin American CP which is responsible
for printing and distribution of one of the five Latin American Spanish
editions of the PPS Journal. The procedure is for the PPS publishing
house in Prague to send monthly by air mail a Spanish master copy of
the desired future edition. The only change in format is that articles
concerning Latin America are moved to the front and occasionally
changes are made in the text when the Spanish translators in Prague
have used regional dialects. The local publishing house then runs off
4, 000 to 5, 000 copies each month on an offset press. T,wd; th'ous'and
are distributed in the local country and the remaining copies are sent
to five nearby countries. The PPS headquarters in Prague reimburses
the local Latin American CP in the amount of U. S. $4, 500.00 for the
publishing costs.
In September 1966, it was further reported that
another larger Latin American CP receives U.S. $20, 000 from Prague
to cover its printing and distribution costs of its Spanish edition of the
PPS Journal.
Subscriptions and Rates
Inquiries concerning the two English editions of
World Marxist Review should be made to either Central. Books, Ltd.
in London, or to Progress Books, Toronto, Canada. All other
inquiries concerning the other language editions should be directed
to Press Circulation Agency, Sadova 3, Prague VI, Czechoslovakia.
Subscription rates of the English edition published in
Toronto, Canada are $5.00 for 18 issues, $3.50 for 12 issues, single
copies 35 cents, bundle of five or more 25 cents per copy, and add
15 cents exchange for delivery outside Canada.
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Supplementing the regular monthly journal, PPS, in late
1963 began the publication at irregular intervals of an "Information
Bulletin. " The initial issue stated that the publishing house Peace
and Socialism was bringing to the attention of its readers a collection
of documents of various Communist parties. It further stated that the
publishing house intends to bring out regularly collections of documents
on current problems of the world Communist movement that are of
interest to world opinion.
From the timing of its first appearance and a, review of its
content, it would seem that the Information Bulletin was conceived
primarily as a means of reproducing and circulating anti-Chinese
documents, leaving the PPS Journal more or less free of anti-Chinese
polemics.
Since 1963, eighty-five issues of the Information Bulletin
have been published. The 85th issue is dated 9 December 1966.
The Information Bulletin initially was published in at least three
language editions -- French, Spanish, and English. It is possible
that other language editions are now being published. One English
edition of the Information Bulletin is published by Progress Books,
44 Stafford Street, Toronto 3, Ontario, Canada. The price of the
Canadian issue of the Information Bulletin is ten cents per copy.
Peace and Socialism Publishing House
PPS apparently established a. "Peace and Socialism Publish-
ing House" in Prague soon after its founding. The June 1961 issue of
the PPS Journal carried a reference to the existence of this PPS pub-
lishing house in Prague. The address of this publishing house is:
Vydavatelstvi Mir a Socialismus, 6 Dejv, Sadova 3, Prague, Czecho-
slovakia. This publishing house has continued to publish books and
pamphlets and advertises them under the "New Books" section of the
monthly PPS Journal.
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A. Value of PPS Seminars
The publication of the monthly journal by the PPS is perhaps
its most important activity. Next in line probably is the holding of
seminars and round-table discussions which bring together important
Communists from around the world.
Seminars are particularly useful to the international
Communist movement in general and the CP of the Soviet Union (CPSU)
in particular for the following reasons:
1. They provide an excellent forum for propagandizing
timely social, political and economic issues since the discussions at
each seminar are usually subsequently publicized in the PPS Journal
which is read in 137 countries. Often the seminar is given much local
publicity such as the Cairo, Egypt seminar held 24-29 October 1966.
2. These seminars also provide an opportunity for the
CPSU through its representatives on the PPS staff to acquire background
information and to sample the atmosphere in international Communist
circles. It also allows the CPSU representatives to sound out the views
of other Communist parties, as well as to clarify and propagate its own.
The seminars thus contribute-to "creative development" of doctrine and
tactics.
B. Scope of the Subject Matters Discussed at the PPS Seminars
Since 1958, the PPS has sponsored in whole or in part at
least 26 seminars which ranged in size from meetings between repre-
sentatives from as few as six countries to as many as forty countries.
The dates, locations, and subjects discussed were as follows:
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Date
Location
1.
Late 1958
Rome
2.
May 1959
Leipzig
3.
August-September
Bucharest
1959
4.
April 1960
Prague
5.
April 1960
Prague
6.
September 1960
Havana and
Bucharest
7.
May 1961
Paris
8.
June 19 61
Prague
9. ,
October 1961
Prague
10.
September 1961
Prague
Subject
Theories and.practice of
so-called human relations
under capitalism.
National bourgeoisie and
the liberation movements
in Asia, Africa, and Latin
America.
Struggle of the Communist
and workers parties against
revisionism.
Meeting of the Editorial
Council of PPS.
Economics role of the
state under socialism.
The agrarian problem and
the national liberation
movement.
Exchange of views on. man
and his future.
The Communist movement
and the. youth.
Round-table talks among
a group of Marxist sociolo-
gists.
The paths of development
es.
i
of newly emergent countr
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11. Late 1961 or
Early 1962
12. May 1962
13. May 1962
14. Summer 1962
15. August-September
1962
16. December 1962
Location
Prague
Prague
Near Prague
Prague
Moscow
Prague
Subject
Crises and the working
people.
The role of women in
modern society.
Anti-Communism, the
enemy of mankind.
Building a united anti-
imperialist front.
Problems of modern
capitalism.
The socialist world
system and the national
liberation movement.
17. January 1963
18. Summer 1963
19. Early 1964
20. April 1964
21. June 1964
Prague
Prague
Prague
Prague
Prague
Communists and
democracy.
The present stage of
the national-liberation
movement of the Arab
peoples.
The socialist world
system of economy and
the laws governing its
development.
Problems of the national-
liberation movement of
the Arab peoples.
Unity of the working
class and democratic
movement.
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Location
22.
September 1964
East Berlin
23.
March 1965
Prague
24.
October 1965
Prague
25.
October 1966
Cairo
Subject
An international seminar
on the centenary of the
First International.
Role of the Communist
parties in some developed
capitalist countries.
Meeting devoted to the
30th anniversary of the
7th Congress of the
Comintern.
present stage and paths
of progressive develop-
ment of countries in
Africa.
The anti- imperialist
struggle in Africa in the
26. November 1966 Prague Fight against state mon-
opoly capitalism, for
peace, democracy, and
socialism, and the place
of reforms.
It is noted that there were no key international seminars
sponsored by the PPS during the period from October 1965 to October
1966. Undoubtedly, the Soviets during this period were preoccupied
with the problems in the international Communist movement as well
as with preparation for the 23rd Congress of the CPSU held in Moscow
29 March - 8 April 1966 and thereafter implementing the program of
that Congress. It is noted that this 23rd Congress was attended by
representatives of Communist, workers', national democratic, and
left wing socialist parties of eighty-six countries of all continents.
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Each of the above-mentioned twenty-six seminars are
more fully described and pertinent developments which occured at
each are set forth in some detail in Appendix B.
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VII. Soviet Administrative Control Over the PPS
Organization and Struggle for Unity
Administrative control over the PPS organizational apparatus
at the top by the Soviets is quite apparent. Three of the four key
administrative positions (editor - in-- chief, editorial secretary, and
deputy editorial secretary) have been held by Soviets. The current
editor-in-chief, G. P. FRANTSEV is not a minor Soviet. He has been
a candidate member of the Central Committee of the CPSU since 1961.
The former editor-in-chief, A. M. RUMYANTSEV is a full member of
the Central Committee of the CPSU. After leaving PPS he was chief
editor of Pravda for a period in 1965 before becoming connected with the
Department of Economics, USSR Academy of Sciences.
A. Connections Between PPS and the International
Department of the CPSU
Soviet administrative control of the PPS organization does
not end with control over the three top administrative posts. The
Prague PPS headquarters is reportedly top heavy with Soviet staff
employees whose identities and activities are rarely publicized. It
is probable that the International Department (sometimes called
International Section or Foreign Section), of the CPSU, which is
responsible for maintaining liaison with the free world CPs, plays
an important part in helping to direct and administer certain phases
of work of the PPS.
B. Role of Vitaliy Germanovich KORIONOV
Vitally Germanovich KORIONOV who was the first: editorial
secretary of the PPS (1958-1960) had worked in the CPSU International
Department for many years and prior to his PPS assignment had
reached the important position of chief of the American Sector of the
CPSU's International Department. When. KORIONOV left the PPS he
became an inspector in the International Department and in 1961 was
elected to a key role as a deputy chief of the International Department.
It was reliably reported in 1959 that an effort was made by
officials of the PPS to interview all foreign Communist delegates who
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transited Prague en route to the CPSU 21st Congress in January 1959.
KORIONOV in his capacity as editorial secretary talked with at least
one such delegation, through an interpreter.
He described the mission of the PPS Journal as that of
becoming a collective organ for all CPs and a vehicle for the exchange
of all CPs of practical experiences in solving their problems. He
advised he was interviewing the delegation in order to obtain help in
solving the Journal's problems so that it could fulfill its mission,
which had not been satisfactorily accomplished to date. He also noted
that different reading tastes and different interests in various parts of
the world had posed difficulties for the journal.
KORIONOV furnished to the members of the delegation a
blind memorandum which set forth requests for the periodic sub-
mission by the various CPs of data for the new PPS Journal. These
requests were in addition to articles which may previously have been
requested of a given CP. The new requests were related to specific
regular sections of the journal.
1. For the section "In the Communist and Workers'
Parties": Submit official party documents regarding the most import-
ant internal questions for the party, and also regarding problems of a
type not restricted to one CP only; provide information regarding the
experiences accumulated by the party in different sectors of mass work,
ideological work, political training and education, press work, etc.;
and also send information concerning the internal life of the party.
2. For the bibliographic section: each CP should pro-
vide notes on new Marxist works written on philosophy, economics,
sociology, politics, and cultural matters, citing not only the contents
but also the manner in which new theoretical problems are treated;
recommend new books by "progressive" authors in the above fields
which the journal should call to the attention of its readers; make
proposals and indicate needs with respect to the publication of critical
notes regarding books and publications of a theoretical nature--
including anti-Marxist, revisionist books--which defend reactionary
ideology, have achieved a considerable distribution in the country,
and which should be answered.
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It is also known that when another CP delegation was transit-
ing Prague on its return from the January 1959 Moscow Congress, its
members were interviewed by an official of the PPS organization. This
time the interview was conducted by a Soviet staff member believed to be
Sergey SEMENOV, (who reportedly in 1962 left PPS to return to work in
the International Department of the CPSU). He instructed the delegation
to submit articles for the PPS Journal on the following subjects:
1. The organizational consequences within the CP of what
had proven to be an undue reduction in the number of paid full-time CF
functionaries.
2. Information on the revision of the CPs statutes, in-
cluding the reason for the revisions, the effects, etc.
3. Official party documents on past as well as future party
congresses.
In the same interview, SEMENOV made arrangements for
communications between the CP and the headquarters of the PPS Journal
in Prague. Because the CP involved feared mail interception, it was
advised to forward three copies of all articles in the following manner:
copy to the drop address of a neighboring CP;
copy to the official address of the Journal in Canada;
copy to the official address of the journal in London.
It was also agreed that a test of sending mail directly to
Prague would be made. This would be done by mailing three cards
directly to a personal address at Sadova 3, Prague VI, the J'ournal's
official address in Prague. One card was to be sent every fifteen days .
Receipt of the cards would be acknowledged.
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C. Procedure for Approval of Articles Appearing in PPS Journal
As indicated above, articles are constantly being solicited
by the PPS staff from the various CPs throughout the world. Report-
edly, only a relatively small ten per cent of the articles submitted by
free world Communists finally appear in the PPS Journal because of
the close screening given each article.
When a proposed article is received at the PPS headquarters
in Prague, the following procedure is followed according to a usually
reliable source. The first step is to send it to the appropriate area
committee for review. If this committee decides that major changes
are necessary, it is sent to the area or country representative for
discussion and for him to take the matter up by correspondence with
the author of the article. Where it is deemed necessary, the advice of
the appropriate specialist committee is sought. Once the article has
been approved by the area committee, it is translated into Russian and
then passed to the Editorial Board which accepts or rejects it. Articles
sent to Prague by the CC of the CPSU reportedly follow a similar pro-
cedure, but this is for rubber stamping rather than for discussion for
changes thereto. If the Board accepts the article it is sent to Moscow
for the approval of an organ of the CC, CPSU. If the article is approved
by the CC CPSU, the Editorial Board sends it to a drafting sub-commit-
tee which checks out the wording of the article in its Russian version.
This version then becomes the master copy. It is next sent to the tran-
slation staff where it is carefully translated into certain other languages.
(The number of languages actually translated in Prague is not known.)
Thereafter the Russian master copy together with translation SDbAtIthe
various articles are sent by air mail to each area where the actual
printing of the monthly editions is to be handled. In this manner each
of the language editions of the PPS Journal printed in many areas
throughout the world carry the same text although in nineteen or more
languages.
D. PPS Serves as a Liaison Center for CPs
The PPS headquarters in Prague undoubtedly also serves
as a liaison center for the various CPs having representatives
stationed in Prague. For example the Communist Party of Japan
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(JCP) considers its representative on the PPS staff as the "ambassador"
for the JCP to the European CPs.
In March 1963, the organizational secretary of a large
European CP asked the foreign section of the Party how to go about
transmitting an official Party document to a CP in a Near East country.
The organizational secretary was instructed to have the document
passed to the Party representative on the PPS staff who would then
see that the document was delivered to the proper hands.
E. Financing of the PPS
Finances are the lifeblood of any organization. Apparently
there is no shortage of funds available for PPS activities. Reportedly
the financial matters for the PPS are under the general supervision of
the chief editor, FRANTSEV, candidate member of the Central
Committee of the CPSU. It is presumed that the finances for the
operations of the PPS are to a great extent, if not wholly, provided
by the Central Committee of the CPSU.
The experience of one Western European party indicates
that the initial funds to print and distribute the first copy of the PPS
Journal were provided from Prague. The local party then sent an
invoice of costs to Prague and was reimbursed. This is a continuing
procedure. On an average the total income derived by Prague from
subscriptions and sales in respect to the World Marxist Review is
not believed to represent more than one third of the cost of its pro-
duction and distribution.
Each full time CP representative is reportedly paid a
monthly salary of 4500 Czechoslovak crowns. Each party representa-
tive is further reimbursed for the articles and studies he produces.
They also enjoy certain tax-free privileges.
F. Factionalism and the Struggle for Unity
The Sino-Soviet rift has had a serious impact on the
question of unity within the PPS organization. In March 1962, four
years after the founding of the PPS, the Albanian language edition
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was discontinued and by the end of 1962, the Chinese edition had also
disappeared. The last mention of a Korean edition was in the July
1963 issue of the PPS Journal. During late 1963 and early 1964, the
Rumanian CP refused to publish or severely censored its Rumanian
language edition (of the PPS Journal) because of anti-Peking articles
in the Prague editions and because the PPS views on CEMA and other
subjects were found objectionable. It is of interest to note that the
July 1964 issue of the PPS Journal printed a policy statement which
had been adopted in April 1964 by the Central Committee of the Ruman-
ian CP. The dissident Rumanian CP views were cited by the editors of
PPS without rebuttal or comment. This decision to publish the views
of the Rumanian CP was undoubtedly aimed at appeasing to some extent
Rumanian hostility toward the continuing CPSU dominant position in
the PPS.
The Japanese Communist Party (JCP) (which was pro-Peking
until early 1966 and is now attempting to adopt a neutral position in the
Sino-Soviet dispute), issued one of its Japanese language editions of
the PPS Journal in early January 1963. It represented a combined
edition. This 1963 issue, however, omitted a number of articles which
had appeared in the Prague editions. The articles omitted included
"Socialism in the Historical Offensive" by Antonin NOVOTNY, and
"Some Problems of the Revolutionary Movement", by B.N. PONOMAREV.
These articles were omitted because of the implied criticism of the
polemics of the CP of China. One source advised that at least one of
the omitted articles was translated into Japanese by the Soviet Embassy
in Tokyo and distributed to various Communist front organizations.
The JCP in an article in its organ AKAHATA 19 April 1963 stated its
position as follows:
No particular Communist party is entitled to guide any
other party. Today there is no organization that is charged
with the task of guiding the international Communist move-
ment, as in the days of the Comintern. Each and every
fraternal party must stick to the rule of promoting inter-
national solidarity. This is the rule unanimously adopted
through negotiations at the Congress of Communist and
workers' parties. If this is understood, there should be
no doubt about the character of the magazine Problems of
Peace and Socialism.
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"It is irreconcilable with the Moscow Declaration
and the Moscow Statement to contribute an article to such
a magazine in order to denounce unilaterally a certain
fraternal party without waiting for the conclusion of the
international conference. Such an attitude is not correct
at all...
4 We have given the editorial bureau of Problems of
Peace and Socialism in Prague the reasons why our party
decided to publish a Japanese version of this magazine. As
a result we have received a reply from a responsible member
of the editorial bureau saying that the publication of this
magazine in other nations depends on the decision of the
party concerned and that the editorial bureau in the future
will not carry any article which criticizes other fraternal
parties. 41,
The Japanese language edition is apparently published
sporadically. The most recent issue noted is dated February 1966.
It was envisioned at the founding of the PPS that most
Communist and workers' parties would eventually be brought into the
organization. In fact the initial September 1958 issue of the PPS Journal
stated "Our journal will be able to fulfill its tasks only if communists
of all countries take an active part in it.";' Only 40 to 45 countries are
currently represented on the staff.
G. Possible Future Course of the PPS
The CPSU realizes the value of the PPS organization as a
principal mechanism to enhance proletarian internationalism and an
international forum to seek a return of unity in the international
Communist movement. There is no current indication that the CPSU
intends to lessen in any way its commitments to the PPS organization,
or materially change its areas of operations.
It can be expected in the immediate period ahead that the
Editorial Staff of the PPS will be used primarily as a "stimulator" of
international coordination to advance Marxist-Leninist goals.on a
world-wide basis. Obviously Soviet and Bloc theoreticians on the
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PPS staff will provide the guidelines and in consultation with leading
members of Communist parties formulate the correct party line in
each new situation.
Undoubtedly a main effort will be made to stimulate
improvement of unity within the international Communist movement.
Leonid BREZHNEV, general secretary of the CPSU, in his report to
the 23rd Congress of the CPSU on 29 March 1966 made the following
pertinent remarks:
"The recent conferences and meetings of representatives
of Communist parties served the cause of unity of the world Communist
movement well. In the last 18 months alone, we have had meetings
with more than 200 delegations from 6Q fraternal parties. Further
multilateral and bilateral meetings, continuous exchanges of
experience, comradely discussions of current problems -- this is a
correct and useful practice in the relations between fraternal parties
and, at the same time, a good way to cement the Communist movement.. .
"Our party will continue to conduct the line for joint action
by the Communist parties of the world in the struggle against imperial-
ism for the great goals of peace, democracy, and national indepen-
dence, for socialism and Communism. "
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EDITIONS OF THE JOURNAL PROBLEMS OF PEACE AND SOCIALISM
INCLUDING LOCAL TITLES AND LOCAL PRINTING OR DISTRIBUTION
POINTS (where known).
EDITIONS IN ENGLISH
(World Marxist Review)
(Peace, Freedom and Socialism
Central Books Ltd.,
37 Grays Inn Road,
London, W. C. 1, England
RUSSIAN EDITION
(Problemy mira i sotsialisma)
Stredisko pro rozsirovani tisku
Praha VI, Thakuro.va 3
Czechoslovakia
Progress Books
44 Stafford St.,
Toronto 3, Ontario,
Canada
FRENCH EDITIONS
(La Nouvelle Revue Internationale)
Societe d'Edition et
d' Info rmation 9,
Boulevard des Italiens,
Paris (2e) France
Librairie Du Monde Entier
5, Place St. Jean,
Bruxelles
Librairie Rousseau
36. rue J.J. Rousseau
Geneve
ARABIC EDITIONS
(Al Waqt)
Sawaya SAWAYA, publisher
Published in Beirut, Lebanon
(In January 1966 responsibility
for publication was shifted to
Tannus DIAB. This is one of
the special type local editions
mentioned earlier herein.)
(Al-Mabadi)
This is the North African edition
printed in Morocco and distributed
irregularly.
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BRAZILIAN EDITION
(in Portugese)
(Problemas do la paz e do
socialismo)
Rua da Assembeia, 34
3. o andar, sala 304,
Rio de Janerio,
Estado da Guanabara
Brazil
BULGARIAN EDITION
(Problemi na mira i sotsializma)
Raznoizno s,
1, Rue Tzar Assen
Sofia
CEYLON EDITION
(in Singhalese)
91 Cotta Road
Colombo, Ceylon
CYPRIOT EDITION
(in Greek)
Laikon Praktorion,
Tricoupi Street, 53 T. Nicosia
CZECH EDITION
(Otazky miru a socialismu)
Artia, Praha 2,
Nove Mesto, Ve smeckach 30
DUTCH EDITION
(Vraagstukken van vrede en socialisme)
Progressief Algemeen Vertaalbureau
Chr Snouck
Hurgronjehof 22
Amsterdam W
GERMAN EDITIONS
(Probleme des Friedeis and des
Sozialismus)
Deutsche Buch-Export and Import
GmbH,
Leipzig C I, Leninstrasse 16
"Globus" Vertrieb auslaendischer
Zeitschriften, Wien XX
Hochstadtplatz 3
Austria
Genossenschaft Lite raturvertrieb
Zurich, Zurich 4, Feldstrasse 46,
Switzerland
GREEK EDITION
(Diethnis Politiki Epitheorisi)
(International Political Review)
Akadirias 57 (Sine Opera) l'etage
Athenes 143.
HUNGARIAN EDITION
(Beke es Szocializmus)
Kossuth Kiado, Budapest, V.
Arpad- Ut6
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ITALIAN EDITION
(Problemi della pace i del
socialismo)
Libreria Rinascita,
Via delle Botteghe
O'scure 2, Roma
JAPANESE EDITION
(Heiwa to Shakai Shugi no Sho
Mondai)
Nauka Ltd.,
2, Kanda-Zinbocho
2-chome, Chiyoda-Ku, Tokyo
EDITIONS IN SPANISH
(Problemas de la paz y del
socialismo)
(Revista Internactional)
(Nuestra Epoca)
(Principios)
Agencia de Distribucion de Prensa
Praha 6, Thakurova 3
Ediciones Paz y Socialismo,
Apt Nacional 1253,
Bogota, Colombia
Ediciones Pueblos Unidos
Casilla Correo 589, Montevideo
Uruguay
MONGOLIAN EDITION Fondo de Cultura Popular
(Enkh Taivan sotsializmyn asuudal) Apdo postal 2352
Mexico 1, D. F.
Mongolgosknigotorg
ul. Lenina 41, Ulan-Bator Empresa Editora Austral
San Francisco 36
Casilla 13201
POLISH EDITION Santiago, Chile
(Problemy pokoju socjalizmu)
Editorial "Anted"
P. K. W. Z. "RUCH", Warszawa, Entre Rios 1033,
Wilcza 46 Buenos Aires, Argentina
RUMANIAN EDITION SWEDISH EDITION
(Probleme ale pacii si (Problemer of Freden og
socialismului) Sotsialiszen)
Directia Difuzarii Presei Arbetarkultur, Kungsgt 84,
Palatul administrativ C.F.R. Stockholm K. Sweden
Bd. Dinicu Golescu, Intrarea G.
Bucuresti
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TURKISH EDITION
(Yeni Cag)
(New Age)
Strediska pro Rozsirovani Tisku,
Praha 6, Thakurova 3
VIETNAMESE EDITION
(Nhung van de boa Binh va chu
nghia xa hoi)
So'o xuat nhap khau sach bao 32,
Hai Ba truing, Ha-noi
DISCONTINUED EDITIONS:
Albanian Edition
(Probleme to pages dhe socializmit)
Discontinued March 1962
Chinese Edition
(Ho ping ho she hui chu i wen t'i)
Discontinued end of 1962
Korean Edition
(Pchenchwawa Sachedjui Demunde)
Discontinued summer of 1963
PRAGUE ADDRESSES FOR
CORRESPONDENCE:
Circulation Press Agency
Sadova 3
Prague VI, Czechoslovakia
(Address given for inquiries on
the English edition)
Editorial Offices for the Russian
Edition
Thakurova 3,
Prague VI, Czechoslovakia
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APPENDIX B
KEY SEMINARS SPONSORED IN WHOLE OR IN PART BY PPS 1958-1966
1. Exchange of Views at the Gramsci Institute in Rome,
held at the end of 1958.
According to the PPS Journal (January 1959), an exchange of
views between Marxists from European, American and Asian countries
took place at the end of 1958 at the.Gramsci Institute in Rome.
The agenda contained an item "On the Theories and Practice of
So-Called Human Relations Under Capitalism." In the course of the
discussions, however, the speakers touched upon a much wider range
of problems bearing on the conditions and the struggle of the working
class in the capitalist countries.
According to the January 1959 article in PPS, the exchange of
views at the Gramsci Institute in Rome demonstrated the keen in-
terest shown by Marxists in all countries in the new problems of
the working class struggle. Taking into account the wishes of those
present at the meeting, who pointed out that a number of questions
had not been sufficiently dealt with either at the conference or in
Marxist publications, the Editorial Board of PPS invited theorists
in the Communist parties and other activists in the labor movement
to join in the further elaboration of the issues, for which purpose
it would gladly provide space in its Journal.
The conference participants noted that joint discussions between
Marxists are well worth while and play an important part in studying
the problems confronting the labor movement. The wish was expressed
that conferences and exchanges of opinion on an international scale
should be held more frequently.
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2. Exchange of Views at the Leipzig Jnstitute of World History,
held late in May 1959.
According to the August and September 1959 issues of the PPS
Journal, a seminar on the national bourgeoisie and the liberation
movements in Asia, Africa and Latin America was held late in May
1959 in the Leipzig Institute of World History. Representatives from
at least sixteen countries attended.
The seminar was opened by Dr. MARKOW, director of the
Leipzig Institute of World History, A. RUMYANTSEV, spoke on
behalf of the Editorial Board of PPS. His remarks dwelt on some
of the theoretical aspects of the problem under discussion and in
particular, on the term 'national bourgeoisie". According to the
PPS articles, all the speakers stressed that the seminar was the
first collective effort to study the important and complex problem
of "The National Bourgeoisie and the Liberation Movement"; they
agreed that it would be useful to continue the discussion in the PPS
Journal.
3. Exchange of Views on "The Struggle of the Communist
and Workers Parties Against Revisionism", held in
Bucharest, Rumania August 25-September Z, 1959.
According to the January and February 1960 issues of the PPS
Journal, the Fifth International Conference of Institutes of Marxism-
Leninism and Institutes and Commissions on the History of the Party,
attached to the Central Committees of the Communist and Workers'
parties, was held in Bucharest, Rumania between August 25th and
September 2nd, 1959. The PPS Journal took part in the proceedings.
The discussion centered around the struggle waged by the Communist
and workers parties for working-class unity and against contemporary
revisionism. Representatives of the Communist parties of twenty-
five countries participated.
A report on the "Tasks of Historical Science in the Struggle
Against Contemporary Revisionism" was delivered by N. I. SHATAGIN
(CPSU). He spoke of the significance of the Party congresses of the
past two years in developing the Communist movement and in partic-
ular the political and ideological defeat of revisionism; he emphasized
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the importance of the publication of Marxist-Leninist classics in the
anti-revisionist struggle, and briefly reviewed the books, pamphlets,
symposiums and documents published in the recent period. He said
these are of great help in training party functionaries and the people
in the spirit of Marxism-Leninism. SHATAGIN's report dealt with
three problems: the growing role of the Communist parties in the
working class movement of today, the peculiarities of the working-
class movement at the present stage, and the ways of transition from
capitalism to socialism.
The conference was arranged by the Institute of History of the
Party attached to the Central Committee of the Rumanian Workers'
Party. It made available to the PPS Journal all the materials per-
taining to the discussion.
4. Meeting of the Editorial Council of PPS held in Prague
13-16 April 1960.
According to Rude Pravo of Prague 23 April 1960, a conference
of the Editorial Council of the PPS Journal was held in Prague
13-16 April 1960 with the participation of representatives of thirty-six
Communist and workers' parties. The conference outlined the
following tasks for future editorial works to promote the main-
tenance and consolidation of peace, the unification of mankind in
the struggle against the policy of war preparation pursued by
aggressive imperialist circles, a broad enlightenment campaign
on socialist and Communist construction successes, and analyses
of Marxist-Leninist theoretical problems on the basis of general
conclusions drawn from contemporary developments. The periodical
further should contribute to the unity of action of working class organ-
izations in defense of the working people's interests in capitalist
countries and systematically explain the problems of the national
liberation movement.
It is noted that the identities of the 36 CP representatives on
the Editorial Council were not carried in the PPS Journal. This is
in line with the PPS practice to, conceal the identities of the staff
representatives.
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The June 1960 issue of the PPS Journal briefly mentioned
this Editorial Council meeting. According to the Journal, the
Council heard the report of the Editorial Board on the work of
the Journal. The tasks of the Journal were discussed as well as
the prospects for improving it. The Editorial Council unanimously
noted that the Journal, guided by the Moscow Declaration and the
Peace Manifesto, had furthered the ideological unity and solidarity
of the international Communist movement, elaborating and elucidating
problems of Marxist-Leninist theory, combatting revisionism and
dogmatism and exchanging views and experiences.
It was indicated that the discussions at the meeting took place
in an atmosphere of unanimity.
5. Exchange of Views on "Economic Role of the State Under
Socialism", held in Prague in Ap111960.
According to the July 1960 issue of the PPS Journal, a seminar
on the economic role of the State under socialism was held in April
in Prague under the joint auspices of the Editorial Office of PPS and
the Institute of Economics of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences.
The seminar was opened by V. KAIGL (from the Institute of
Economics) who made a short introductory speech. The speeches
(abridged) are printed in the July 1960 ispueLOf the PPS Journal.
Representatives from at least ten countries participated,
6. Exchange of Views on "Agrarian Problem and the National
Liberation Movement" held in Havana, Cuba and Bucharest,
Rumania in September 1960.
The January, February, and March 1961 issues of the PPS
Journal contain pertinent information concerning the above seminar
sessions and contributions of various participants. This exchange
of views was held under the auspices of the Editorial Board of PPS,
the Editors of Fundamentos, theoretical organ of the Central Com-
mittee of the Popular Socialist Party of Cuba and the Institute of
Economics of the Rumanian Academy of Sciences. Marxists from
twenty-seven countries contributed,
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Those who took part in the 'meetings were conscious of both
the complexity and importance of the subject which, as yet, had not
been adequately elaborated. They were hopeful that the exchange of
views would be followed by a systematic mutual discussion of the
subject in the columns of the PPS Journal.
7. Exchange of Views on "Man and His Future", held at Royaumont,
near Paris 17-20 May 1961 and on May 21st at the Sorbonne.
The October and November 1961 issues of the PPS Journal contain.
information concerning the above seminars, which were sponsored by
the editorial board of PPS and by the Centre dlEtudes et de Recherches
Marxistes in Paris. The Royaumont meeting attracted Marxists and non-
Marxist scholars in different branches of science from both the socialist
and capitalist countries.
The following basic points were debated at the conference:
a. The march of history and the transition from one social
system to another;
b. Socio-economic problems in the under-developed countries:;
The new breakthrough in science and technology and its
social consequences;
d. Criteria and ideals of social progress.
The Journal states that the exchange of views was most useful.
"It enabled the Marxists to get a better idea of the problems agitating
many intellectuals in the West, enabled them to sharpen their argu-
ments and verify their soundness.!' They found allies among pro-
gressive scientists, writers, and others who are equally inspired by
the desire for peace, social justice and progress.
The PPS Journal was represented by F. HAVLICEK, J. KANAPA,
A. SOBOLEV, Ye. SITKOVSKIY, and E. ARAB-OGLY.
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8. Seminar on "Communist Movement and the Youth", held in
Prague 14-16 June 1961.
This seminar was sponsored by the Editorial Board of PPS.
The seminar was opened by A. M. RUMYANTSEV, Chief Editor of
PPS. Among other things he said, "For us Communists it is of the
utmost importance that the youth, as they take over from the plder
generation, should step out along the path of progress, to the reali-
zation of our great goal--Communism''. Representatives from twenty-
six countries attended.
RUMYANTSEV, in summing up the discussion stressed that the
participants had given a broad picture of the work conducted by the
Communist Parties among the youth, of the thinking of the young people,
and that in this lay the significance of the exchange.
Information concerning the various presentations at this seminar
is set out in the October and November 1961, and the January and Feb-
ruary 1962, issues of the PPS Journal.
9. Round-Table talks amon a group of Marxist Sociologists - , held
in the Editorial Office of the FPS Journal, 6-7 October 1961.
This conference was arranged by the PPS Journal. A. I. SOBOLEV,
assistant editor of the journal, who opened the meeting, observed that
in arranging this exchange of views, the editors had been prompted
primarily by the practical needs of the journal. The editors wished
to discuss jointly with sociologists the prospects of organizing socio-
logical research under the auspices of the journal with a view to better
pz9~o#~hp~ t,: socialist way of life and to expose bourgeois ideology
and reformism through a factual study of the conditions of the working
people in the different countries.
Information concerning this conference is in the February 1962
issue of the PPS Journal. Members of the Editorial Board and of
the staff of the PPS took part in the discussions.
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10. Exchange of Views on "Paths of Development of Newly
Emergent Countries", held in Prague in September 1961.
This seminar was held in Prague under the auspices of the
Editorial Board of PPS. Marxists from twenty-one countries
discussed the "problem of winning genuine independence, the paths
of development of the former colonial countries and the diverse
political, social and economic questions which have arisen in the
course of this development". The participants expressed the view
that the struggle for national liberation does not end with the estab-
lishment of national statehood and is bound to continue until full
economic independence is won. It was from this angle that the
specific conditions of the national liberation struggle in the different
continents and countries were discussed.
See the April, May, June, and July 1962 issues of the PPS for
pertinent information concerning this seminar.
11. Exchange of Views on "Crises and the Working People",
held in the Editorial Office of PPS in Prague (Date not
given, believed to be late in 1961 or early 1962.)
A. RUMYANTSEV, editor-in-chief of the PPS Journal stated
that the theme concerned the features and forms of crises and economic
cycles of modern capitalism. Representatives from seven countries
participated.
In summing up the discussion, RUMYANTSEV said, "Thus,
looking back over our discussion, we see there are problems which
require further research. By fully clarifying these complex and
difficult problems of the modern economic cycle, we shall be doing
our duty as Marxists, who never cling to outdated positions but forge
ahead, generalizing the new developments in economics and politics. "
Information concerning this conference is in the March 1962
issue of the PPS Journal.
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12. Seminar on "Role of Women in Modern Society", . held in
Prague in May 1962.
This seminar was sponsored by the Editorial Board of PPS
and was attended by "Marxists" from twenty-two countries.
A. M. RUMYANTSEV, chief editor of the PPS Journal in his
opening address to the seminar said, "In discussing the work con-
ducted by Communists among women. we still encounter two extreme
viewpoints, differing superficially, but in reality equally erroneous
and harmful. One is that there is no such thing as a Women's question,
that there are only general political and social problems... According
to the other viewpoint, the (woments) question is too specific to be
solved jointly with general social problems. This too, is an incorrect
position, one which isolates the woments movement from the struggle
for democracy and socialism, and, in the final analysis, leads to its
degeneration".
Information concerning this seminar is in the July 1962 issue
of the PPS Journal.
13. Exchange of Views on "Anti-Communism, the Enemy of
Mankind", held in Liblice (near Prague) 28-30 May 1962.
This seminar was held under the auspices of the PPS Journal
and the Institute of Philosophy of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences.
This was an international theoretical conference devoted to the exposure
of modern anti-communism. The seminar was attended by public and
political leaders, scholars, and journalists from more than twenty
countries.
Ladislav STOLL,vice-president of the Czechoslovak Academy of
Sciences, opened the seminar. He said in part, ,"We all appreciate
the timeliness and significance of this international symposium.
Imperialist reaction today is mobilizing all its material and intellec-
tual forces against us... It is the duty of all progressive people, urgent
task of all who work in the social sciences to follow carefully and
systematically the political and ideological machinations of anti-
communism and expose them to the people of the whole world. "
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A. M. RUMYANTSEV and A. I. SOBOLEV, represented the PPS
Journal at the seminar.
Information concerning this seminar is in the August, September,
October, and November 1962 issues of the PPS Journal.
14. Exchange of Views on "Building a United Anti-Imperialist
Front", held during the' summer of 1962 (Believed in Prague).
According to the January 1963 issue of the PPS Journal, a number
of Communist=and workers' parties had accumulated useful experience
of co-operation with other parties and groups. With a view to exchang-
ing this experience and further elaborating the problems associated
with building a united anti-imperialist front of the Left forces, the
editors of PPS held a round table conference during the summer of 1962
which was attended by Marxists from ten Latin American countries.
The January 1963 issue contains information concerning the discussions
which took place.
A. M. RUMYANTSEV, editor-in-chief of PPS opened the seminar
by stating that the subject under discussion "Building a United Anti-
Imperialist Front", has a direct bearing on the struggle of the working
class and the practical activity of Communists. The statement of the
1960 meeting (in Moscow) of Communist and workers' parties empha-
sized that consolidation of national independence, carrying out far-
reaching democratic reforms,. the fight against imperialism and for
ending the remnants of fetdalism, for social progress and raising
living standards, cannot be accomplished unless all the progressive
forces bf the nation are united. The initiative in uniting these forces
into a broad national front belongs to the working class and the
Communists.
15. Exchange of Views on the "Problems of Modern. Capitalism",
held in Moscow from 27 August - 3 September 1962.
This seminar was sponsored by PPS and the Institute of World.
Economics and International Relations of the U.S.S.R. Academy of
Sciences. The symposium was attended by Marxist scholars from
22 countries as well as members of the Editorial Staff of PPS.
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A. M. RUMYANTSEV, chief editor of PPS, opened the seminar,
He dwelt briefly on the basic problems and laws of contemporary
world development. The discussion concentrated on three problems
of modern capitalist society: State-monopoly capitalism, European
"integration", and the position and struggle of the working class in
the capitalist countries.
A paper was read by A. A. ARZUMANYAN on the subject
"Problems of Modern Capitalism and the Class Struggle". Details of
this paper as well as information concerning the discussions are to be
found in the November 1962 issue of the PPS Journal.
16. Exchange of Views on "Socialist World System and the National
Liberation Movement", held in Prague in December 1962.
This international seminar was held under the auspices of the
PPS. At least 18 countries were represented. The subjects discussed
were:
a. The existence of the socialist world system as a guarantee
of the victory of the national-liberation movements;
b. World socialism and the economic independence of the
newly emergent states;
c. World socialism and social progress in the newly emergent
state s.
Information concerning this seminar is set forth in the March
1963 issue of the PPS Journal. A. M. RUMYANTSEV, chief editor of
PPS summarized the results by raising a number of points brought out
in the discussions. He concluded as follows: "All this confirms over
and over again the progressive role played by the interaction and
interconnection of world socialism and national liberation, the signi-
ficance of the all-round support rendered by socialism to the forces
of national liberation. Clearly, social progress on the world scale
largely depends on this interconnection. "
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17. Exchange of Views on "Communists and Democracy", held
in Prague 23-26 January 1963.
This seminar was attended by thirty-eight Marxist scholars
and functionaries of the Communist and workers' parties and other
organizations from twenty-two countries. The object of the seminar,
according to the PPS Journal, "was not to make an exhaustive study
of the problem or to arrive at any final conclusions. The subject
had too many aspects to allow of any such finality. Nor was it the
purpose of the seminar mechanically to counterpose socialist democ-
racy to bourgeois democracy, without due argumentation, as some
propagandists are prone to do. The purpose was to facilitate, by
examining certain aspects of the problem to the struggle for democracy
which Communists and their allies are waging at the present time. "
According to the April 1963 issue of the PPS Journal, the
discussion fully measured up to this aim. Additional information
on this seminar can be found in the May, June and July 1963 issues
of the PPS Journal. The concluding address was delivered by
A. M.. RUMYANTSEV, chief editor of PPS.
18. Exchange of Views on "The Present Stage of the National-
Liberation Movement of the Arab Peoples", held in the
Prague offices of the PPS during the Summer of 1963.
This regional seminar consisted of theoreticians from Algeria,
Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Sudan, and Syria. This conference was of a
preliminary character and the discussions covered the following three
points:
a. The socio-economic and political problems of the
Arab countries;
b. Arab unity;
c. "Arab socialism".
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The October 1963 issue of the PPS Journal summarized the
discussions which took place at this seminar. It is noted that the
PPS Journal in this instance did not list the identities of the par-
ticipants. The participants agreed on the need to meet again for a
fuller discussion of the problems facing the national liberation
movement of the Arab peoples.
This seminar represented an attempt by the Soviets through the
PPS to bring about unity of action among various Communist parties
in the Arab world. Such control was felt necessary by the Soviets, at
least in part, to force acquiescence to a new ~:olicy regarding Egypt,
which they knew would meet opposition on the part of some Arab
Communist leaders. This new line, favorable to the NASIR regime as
long as certain minimum conditions were met, was designed not only
to further Soviet foreign policy aims but to make most effective use of
the one-sided ii aturcnof Communist assets in Egypt--several individuals
in key government positions but no effectively organized political party.
The seminar ended with unanimous agreement among the par-
ticipants on this keynote position: "The Communists of the Arab
countries, true to Marxism-Leninism, to the 1957 Declaration and
1960 Statement will spare no effort to ensure the unity of the world
Communist movement and will continue to fight against domatism
and sectarianism, for creative development of the Marxist-Leninist
teaching.''."
19. Exchange of Views on "The Socialist World System of Economy
and the Laws Governin its Development held in Prague
(believed in early 1964).
This seminar was restricted to economists from eight Communist
countries (Bulgaria, Hungary, German Democratic Republic, Mongolia,
Poland, Rumania, Czechoslovakia, and U.S.S.R.). The PPS Journal
was represented by Lene BERG, Andras GEDO, Aleksey RUMYANTSEV,
Vaclav SLAVIK, Aleksandr SOBOLEV and Gennadiy PUSHEV.
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The questions examined at this seminar were:
"The objective necessity and specific features of inter-
national socialist division of labor; socialist planning,
equalization of the economic levels of the socialist
countries, the economic effect of the international
socialist division of labor, and the relations between
the national economic endeavor and the international
specialization of production. "
Pertinent information concerning the discussions can be found in
the April and June 1964 issues of the PPS Journal. The participants in
the symposium agreed that their exchange of views on the laws governing
the socialist world system did not and could not claim to be exhaustive.
Some aspects, they pointed out, called for deeper examination and would
for long be the subject of scientific discussion. The purpose of the
exchange was to discuss just a few of the theoretical issues pertaining
to the development of the socialist world economic system.
20. Exchange of Views on the "Problems of the National-Liberation
Movement of the Arab Peoples", held in Prague in April 1964.
This seminar was a follow-up of the earlier seminar on the same
subject held during the summer of 1963. 'is seminar, like the pre-
ceeding one, was restricted to representatives from the Arab countries
(Syria, Iraq, Morocco, Lebanon, and Jordan). The July and September
1964 issues of the PPS Journal contain abridged information concerning
this seminar. The August 1964 issue contains an article entitled
"Some Problems of the National-Liberation Movement" by Khalid
BAKDASH one of the participants.
Volume #15 of the "Information Bulletin" of the PPS (pages
797-807) also contains information concerning this seminar.
All the speakers at this seminar stressed that the fight for the
unity of the Arab people was part of their fight against imperialism,
against the old and the new colonialism, and for the social advance ..'nt
of their countries.
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The exchange of views among Marxist theoreticians from the
Arab countries, the speakers unanimously stressed, would 'facilitate
the creative elucidation of the new complex problems confronting the
national-liberation movement at the present stage. "
21. Exchange of Views on "Unity of the Working Class and Democratic
Movement", held in Prague 16-19 June 1964.
It is believed that this seminar had been previously scheduled
in Prague for 1963. A letter was sent to various Communist parties
from PPS headquarters in August 1963 by A. SOBOLEV, the executive
secretary of PPS, advising that the Editorial Board of PPS planned to
hold an exchange of views on "The Problems of Unity of the Working
Class and Democratic Forces in the Developed Capitalist Countries"
in Prague between October 29 and November 1. There is no informa-
tion available indicating that this seminar was held at that time.
On 25 March 1964 a letter was sent from the PPS headquarters
by A. RUMYANTSEV, chief editor of PPS, to various Communist
parties, advising 'Recent economic and political developments in a
number of the developed capitalist countries have imparted particular
urgency to united working-class action and the unity of the democratic
forces". The letter indicated that a round-table discussion would be
held in Prague on 16-19 June 1964 and enclosed a list of questions for
the round-table exchange under the following headings:
Perspectives of the working-class and democratic
movements in the west, and the problem of working-
class unity.
b. Communists and Social Democrats,
c. The Catholic Trend,
d. Other questions.
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The January 1965 issue of the PPS Journal finally publicized the
fact that this seminar was held. Pertinent information concerning the
discussions can be found in the January, February, and April 1965
issues of the PPS Journal. Representatives from seventeen countries
participated. A. SOBOLEV represented the PPS at this seminar.
According to the January 1965 issue of the PPS Journal, the
discussion at this seminar covered a wide range of questions "including
the new conditions in which the struggle for working-class unity is being
waged; the Left forces and the platform of unity; the Communists and
the social democrats; the Communists and the Catholic movement; the
development of unity in the trade union movement and others.'. "
22. An International Seminar on the Centenary of the First International,
held in East Berlin 25-29 September, 1964.
This seminar was held under the joint auspices of the PPS Journal
and the Central Committee of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED).
This seminar was attended by over a hundred Marxist scholars and
leaders of Communist and workers' parties from forty countries.
Information concerning this seminar is set forth in the November
1964 issue of the PPS Journal. It stated, "Referring to the significance
of the revolutionary traditions of the First International and rioting their
relationship to the contemporary world revolutionary process, and
examining some of the basic issues of the revolutionary movement of
today, the speakers stressed that the seminar was proof of the cohesion
and mutual understanding among Marxists-Leninists the world over, and
would serve to strengthen their unity through creative development of
social science:'"
According to the 6 October 1964 issue of The Worker, a Communist
party publication in the United States, many new theoretical problems
of Marxism were aired at the five-day scientific session in which dele-
gates of Communist parties from thirty-nine countries participated.
According to the article, Aleksey RUMYANTSEV, chief editor of the
PPS Journal, in his closing remarks said, "We all welcome the
independent and creative approach to the solution of tasks posed for
Communists by life itself. At the same time, we state with satisfac-
tion the existing common viewpoint as regards the basic principles of
Marxisrn-Leninism`.."
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The 6 October 1964 article further stated with reference to the
seminar that "the need was recognized for broader information of
brother parties, especially in capitalist countries, regarding economic
developments in socialist countries... In the panel on, problems of
development of capitalist countries, chief emphasis was laid on highly
developed countries. Here a direct appeal was made to brother parties
for deeper understanding of the manifold conditions of struggle, taking
into consideration national characteristics and making concrete analysis
of concrete conditions the essence of struggle, as well as evaluating
exactly what socialist perspectives exist for each separate sector of
society in each country... New favorable conditions for unity between
Communists and social democratic movements, especially in Western
Europe, were pointed out. ,"
The November 1964 issue of the PPS Journal states that Aleksandr
SOBOLEV of PPS read a paper on "The Problem of non-Capitalist devel-
opment and the formation of states of national democracy.."
23. Exchange of Views on the "Role of the Communist Parties in
Some Developed Capitalist Countries", held in Prague
16-17 March 1965.
This round-table meeting organized by PPS, on problems of
the mass movement in some developed capitalist countries and the
role of Communists in these movements involved representatives
from only six capitalist countries (Australia, Austria, Canada,
Denmark, Sweden, and the United States). The July 1965 issue
of the PPS contains an abridged transcript of the exchange of views.
W. KASHTAN of Canada, one of the participants at the seminar,
said, "The subject matter of this meeting is of a nature that would be
of concern to the small parties in the capitalist world. We are dealing
here with complex problems and, obviously, there are no simple or
easy solutions to them. From our standpoint, the essential question
we need to focus attention on is, what are the obstancles, objective
and subjective, standing in the way of the smaller parties becoming
a major political force in their respective countries:."
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24. International Meeting Devoted to the 30th Anniversary of the
Seventh Congress of the Comintern, held in the Prague offices
of the PPS on 21-23 October 1965.
This international meeting was sponsored jointly by the Central
Committee of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia with the PPS
Journal to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Seventh Congress of
the Communist International.
The PPS 'Information Bulletin #61", dated 8 December 1965,
contains the pertinent information concerning this meeting. Repre-
sentatives of 39 Communist workers' parties of all continents reportedly
attended this meeting included many participants in the historic 1935
congress.
The meeting was opened by Vladimir KOUCKY, secretary of the
Central Committee of the CP of Czechoslovakia who said that the
purposes of the meeting were to have a comradely exchange of
opinions on the subject "The Historical Results of the Seventh Congress
of the Comintern and Our Time", discuss the role the congress played
in developing Marxist-Leninist ideology, and appraise its significance
for uniting the anti-fascist forces in the fight for peace, democracy,
national and social liberation and the further development of the world
revolutionary movement.
The results of the discussion were summed up by F; G.. P. FRANTSEV,
chief editor of the PPS Journal. He noted the fruitfulness of international
Communist meetings to discuss important aspects and problems of the
theory and history of the world Communist movement. He said,
"Experience shows that such discussions promote the great cause of
strengthening Communist unity and the spirit of proletarian inter-
naionalism. We believe that the meeting has demonstrated the
desire of all its participants to discuss in common important topical
problems and exchange the experience of the many-sided activities
of Marxist-Leninist parties. This should be encouraged'.. 11
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25. African Political Seminar, Sponsored Jointly by the PPS
Journal and the Leftist Egyptian Magazine "Al Talia",
held in Cairo, 24-29 October 1966.
The African seminar was originally scheduled to be held in
Accra, Ghana in August 1965 under the joint sponsorship of the PPS
Journal and The Spark, a Ghana weekly publication. The first
announcement (in the 23 April 1965 issue of The Spark) revealed that
political leaders, scholars, and journalists from various African
countries would discuss a wide range of social, economic, and political
problems at an 18-day meeting to start on 6 August 1965. In early July
1965, The Spark proposed a postponement until November 1965; further
postponements took place and finally the 24 February 1966 coup made
Ghana unsuitable as a site for the seminar.
In the spring of 1966, the PPS Journal reportedly sent a small
delegation to Cairo to explore the possibility of holding the seminar
there. Apparently by June a decision had been made and the seminar
began in Cairo as planned on 24 October 1966 and-concluded six days
later. This seminar was attended by more than eighty delegates rep-
resenting the following 27 countries:
Country
Delegates
Country Delegates
Algeria
3
Portuguese,-Guinea
2
Angola
2
Reunion
1
Cameroun
2
Rhodesia (Zimbabwe)
2
Congo (Brazzaville)
2
Senegal.
4
Congo (Kinshasa)
1
Somalia
3
Czechoslovakia
4
French Somaliland
3
Guinea
2
South Africa
4
Kenya
2
South West Africa
3
Malagasy
3
Sudan
7
Mali
3
Tanzania
2
Morocco
4
Tunisia
1
Mozambique
1
Niger
1
Lesotho
1
United Arab Republic
19
Nigeria
2
There were also observers from France (Democratic Socialist Union),
U.S.S.R. (African Affairs Institute), and Italy (Italian Socialist Party).
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The country delegates represented ruling parties only in the
case of the radical pro-Communist countries (such as Algeria, Congo
Brazzaville, Guinea, Mali, Tanzania, and the U.A.R. ). In other
cases the delegates were representative of small illegal Communist
parties or radical political parties in opposition to their own govern-
ments.
The two main themes concerned !'the anti-imperialist struggle
in Africa in the present stage" and "paths and conditions of progressive
development of countries in Africa. "
The Egyptian Gazette for 30 October 1966 carried an article
concerning the seminar under the heading "African parties call for
unity. " According to the article, "the representatives of thirty-one
African progressive parties and Liberation Movements that have
participated in the seminar on Africa: National and Social Revolution,
issued a communique on their meetings yesterday evening at the final
session... The communique submitted by the Sudanese delegation
stated that the papers and discussions which occurred at the seminar
showed that progressive powers in Africa are determined to unite, to
close their ranks in face of the attack by imperialism and reaction and
to realise the complete liberation of the continent as well as an advance-
ment along the path towards socialism. The communique called for
strengthening the activist revolutionary powers in Africa and expressed
the hope of those who participated in the seminar that problems relating
to unity and cooperation among all the progressive revolutionary powers
which oppose imperialism would be solved... Such unity would expedite
the ultimate and complete liberation of the continent from imperialism
and neo-colonialism, as well as meanwhile enable the African peoples
to safeguard the great accomplishments achieved by the African Revolu-
tion. "
The December 1966 issue of the PPS Journal contains the Commu-
nist version of the seminar. Undoubtedly the seminar was advantageous
to international Communism, although no formal organization or
immediate follow-through has developed. The seminar, undoub'edly,
served both short and long-term Soviet interests. The Soviets through
the PPS Journal and in common cause with the anti-imperialist host
country (Egypt), were able to use this seminar as a means to bring
into closer alignment with the international Communist movement
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those yet uncommitted radical African nationalist parties, and in
advancing Soviet ideology among Africans and in isolating the Chinese
Communists. The left wing elements at the seminar consisted of
militant Communists, progressives, revolutionaries, anti -imperi~.lists,
anti- coloniali sts, and Marxist-Leninist-African-Arab socialists, The
above-mentioned seminar communique reflected the anti-west and
"scientific socialist" tenor of the meeting. The European, Egyptian,
and African Communists gained another forum for their propaganda
efforts.
26. An Exchange of Views on "Fight Against State Monopoly Capitalism,
for Peace, Democracy, and Socialism, and the Place of Reforms",
held in the Editorial Offices of PPS in Prague 1-3 November 1966.
This seminar was a sequel to the March 1965 exchange of views
on the "Role of Communist Parties in Some Developed Capitalist
Countries", in which only six capitalist countries (Australia, Austria,
Canada, Denmark, Sweden, and the United States) participated.
Some forty-five individuals representing the Communist parties
of 16 Communist and Workers' parties (Australia, Austria, Canada,
Denmark, Finland, France, Federal Germany, Greece, Italy, Lux-
embourg, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and the
United States) attended this gathering. Czechoslovakia and the Soviet
Union had observers but reportedly did not participate in the seminar.
However, the meeting was opened by G. P. FRANTSEV, the Soviet
chief editor of the PPS Journal.
More detailed information concerning this seminar is set forth
in the December 1966 issue of the PPS Journal, including the discus-
sions of leading Communists who attended: William KASHTAN (Canada),
Erkki SALOMAA (Finland), Knut BAKSTROM (Sweden), George MEYERS
(United States), John Alan SANDY: (Australia), Arne PETTERSEN
(Norway), Jean KILL (Luxembourg), Edgar WOOG (Switzerland), Ib
NOERLUND (Denmark), Josef SCHLEIFSTEIN (Federal Germany),
Santiago Gomez ALVAREZ (Spain), Erwin ZUCKER-SCHILLING
(Austria), and Nikos KALUDIS (Greece).
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