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 Rh But is this a merely transitional party dictatorship while the foreign wars continue and while the victory of the Communists is not yet assured? Not at all. In his speech before the Communist Internationale, as quoted in the Moscow Pravda, December 3, 1920, Zinoviev declared: "After the victory the role of the party does not decline but on the contrary increases." We have already quoted the resolution of that Congress referring to "the long and persistent civil war which impends." Again Lenin says in his "Theses," which were adopted by the Congress:

On January 30, 1921, Lenin said to the visiting delegation of Spanish Socialists:

Similarly Lenin declared to Serrati, the Italian revolutionary leader, a few months earlier, that the