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NOTE GEORGE ENTEEN (University Park, PA, U.S.A.) PROTOCOLS OF THE MILITARY REVOLUTIONARY COMMITTEE On 1 March 1927 representatives of tstpart? and Tsentroarkhiv2 met to discuss publication of the protocols of the Petrograd Military- Revolutionary Committee (MRC), the Bolshevik-led organization of the Petrograd Soviet that carried out the seizure of power in the capital. The plan.for publication coliapsed in 193 i,3 for a still unknown reason. Not until the waning moments of the post-Stalin thaw were the bulk of the protocols finally published.4 Why did the original publication plan col- lapse ? Recently I discovered materials in the archives of the Secretariat of the Central Committee of the Communist Party that clarify some aspects of this matter. They also raise questions about the mechanisms and per- haps even the limitations of the falsification of history.5 5 1. The Commission for the History of the October Revolmiun and the RKP(b), estab- lished in 1920. 2. The network ol state archives subordinate to the Presidium of the Central Executive Committee of the Supreme Soviet. ' 3. See V. D. Polikarpov, "lz istorii petrogradskogo VRK," Voprosy istorii, No. 1 1 (1977), p. 22. . 4. Petrogradskaia voenno-revoliutsionnyi komitet, 3 vols. (Moscow: Gospolitizdat,
The Soviet and Post Soviet Review – Brill
Published: Jan 1, 1995
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