Russian revolution and India : study of Soviet policy towards Indin National movement

This study, based on original documents available in India and abroad, is in continuation of the author's earlier book, Russian Revolution and India, 1917-1921, in which the impact of the Russian Revolution on the Indian national movement was described in its proper perspective.

In the present book the author gives an objective description of the Soviet attitude towards the Indian national movement and the steps taken by the Communist International to influence its course. From 1921 onwards Soviet involvement in the Indian liberation movement was not a mere theoretical pastime. In fact, concrete steps were taken and certain guidelines were laid down by Lenin and other Russian leaders to bring about the downfall of imperialism through systematic introduction of socialist ideas and direct and indirect encouragement to the bourgeois-led national movement.

Besides giving a brief account of the evolution of the Soviet policy till 1928 when Lenin's guidelines were changed to a more sectarian approach, the author has attempted to present dispassionately the activities of the Indian revolutionary groups abroad and the links between the Indian national movement and the Soviet Union during that period.

The present volume is by no means an exhaustive study of a very complex subject. It, however, brings out the fact that the ideas of socialism together with secularism, its concomit ant, became a part of the ideology of the Indian national movement.