Communist International. He became one of the Soviet Union's leading spokesmen on world communism. He advocated for the Chinese Communist Party to subordinate itself to the Kuomintang, until the debacle of the Guangzhou Uprising. In 1930, he claimed that the rise of the Nazi party was "necessary condition" for the "decisive" victory of the workers' revolution. Personality According to Nikolai Valentinov, who met Martynov in exile in Switzerland in 1904, he was a fine raconteur. "No one could have imagined that this fat, unattractive-looking man with a lisp, who suffered from a dreadful form of eczema on his hands and head, had a tremendous gift of poetical description," he wrote, adding that he "could not understand" how Martynov could have become a communist. See also Collectivization in the Soviet Union Further reading Sotsial'demokraticheskiia pobiedy i burzhuezno-demokraticheskie. (pseud. [Aleksandr Samoilovich Pikker.]) 1904 Передовые И Отсталые. (pseud. [Aleksandr Samoilovich Pikker.]) 1905. Peredovye i otstalye. (pseud. [Aleksandr Samoilovich Pikker.]) 1905. Мы И Они Лицом К Деревне. (pseud. [Aleksandr Samoilovich Pikker.]) 1925 References Citations Notes General Encyclopedia of Marxism - MIA Narodnaya Volya Mensheviks 1865 births 1935 deaths Russian Marxist journalists People from Pinsk Russian Social Democratic Labour Party members Russian communists Russian socialists Russian Jews Belarusian Jews