Startzev and Kagarlitsky on November 4. Discussions were held around four topics: "Trotsky on culture"; "Trotsky on Asia"; "Trotsky's perspective on the crisis of world capitalism in the 1930s*; and "Trotsky and perestroika".
Several notable scholars associated with the Japanese Communist Party helped organize the symposium, and many JCP members were in the audience, but the JCP itself has maintained a complete silence about the event. *
International Viewpoint #197 • December 24, 1990
About 30 Japanese scholars of economics, history, literature and politics organized a symposium to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the assassination of Leon Trotsky. The meeting was held at the University of Tokyo on November 2-4. Five Soviet scholars were present: V. Billik (historian); V. I. Startzev (editorial staff of official CPSU history); A. V. Pantzov (Institute of History of the International Workers' Move-
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