The Workers' Opposition in the Russian Communist Party

Documents, 1919-30

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Produktbeschreibung

A complete documentary history of the Russian Workersâ Opposition and its leading members

Produktdetails

• Historical Materialism
• Verlag: Haymarket Books
• Seitenzahl: 944
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. September 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 154mm x 228mm x 53mm
• Gewicht: 1370g
• ISBN-13: 9781642597820
• ISBN-10: 1642597821
• Artikelnr.: 63398635

Autorenporträt

Barbara C. Allen is Associate Professor of History at La Salle University. She has published Alexander Shlyapnikov, 1885-1937: Life of an Old Bolshevik (Haymarket, 2016) and Leaflets of the Russian Revolution (Haymarket, 2018).

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Explanatory Notes
Abbreviations and Acronyms
Introduction
1 Background to the Trade Union Debate, March 1919–Autumn 1920: The
Workers’ Opposition in Formation
 1  Economic section of RCP(b) programme, point 5, adopted at the Eighth
Congress of the RCP(b), March 1919
 2  A.G. Shliapnikov, ‘Specialists’
 3  A.G. Shliapnikov, ‘Wages and Labour Productivity’
 4  A.G. Shliapnikov, ‘Production and Productivity’
 5  A.G. Shliapnikov, ‘Industrial Productivity’
 6  A.G. Shliapnikov’s report to a meeting of the All-Russian Metalworkers’
Union (VSRM) central committee, the All-Russian Central Council of Trade
Unions (VTsSPS), and other union personnel, Autumn 1919
 7  A.G. Shliapnikov, ‘Tasks of the Russian Proletariat’s Economic
Organisations’
 8  A.M. Kollontai’s diary notes, January–February 1920
 9  Speeches by Iu.Kh. Lutovinov and A.S. Kiselev at the Ninth Congress of
the RCP(b), March–April 1920
 10  A.G. Shliapnikov, ‘Relations between the Russian Communist Party, the
Soviets, and Production Unions’
 11  Speeches by Iu.Kh. Lutovinov, S.P. Medvedev, I.I. Kutuzov, and A.M.
Kollontai at the Ninth Conference of the RCP(b), September 1920
 12  Iu.Kh. Lutovinov’s proposals to the Ninth Conference of the RCP(b),
September 1920
 13  N. Kopylov, ‘That Which Needs to be Destroyed: “Higher-ups” and
“Rank-and-File” ’
 14  A.M. Kollontai’s diary notes, circa October 1920
 15  Theses presented to some party cells and to the central committee of
the All-Russian Metalworkers’ Union in the autumn of 1920
 16  Iu.Kh. Lutovinov, Letter to Ukrainian Comrades, 23 October 1920
 17  Remarks by I.N. Perepechko, Antonov, and G.E. Zinoviev at the Fifth
Conference of the Communist Party (Bolshevik) of Ukraine (CP(b)U), 17–22
November 1920, Kharkov
 18  Letter from G.E. Zinoviev to I.N. Perepechko, 26 November 1920, with
excerpts from Perepechko’s letter to Zinoviev
 19  A.G. Shliapnikov, ‘Tasks of Workers’ Unions’
 20  Circular of the All-Russian Union of Metalworkers Communist Faction
Bureau about organising party cells in the provinces, Moscow, 16 December
1920
2 The Trade Union Discussion, December 1920–March 1921: The Workers’
Opposition as a Fully-Formed Legal Faction
 1  A.G. Shliapnikov’s speech at the Eighth Congress of Soviets, Moscow, 30
December 1920
 2  Theses of the Workers’ Opposition: Tasks of Trade Unions
 3  Iu.Kh. Lutovinov, Report to the All-Russian Trade Union Council
(VTsSPS) on the work of the November–December 1920 trade union commission
 4  A.G. Shliapnikov, ‘Economic Organisation and Unions’ Tasks: For
Discussion’
 5  A.M. Kollontai, ‘Time to Analyse’
 6  A.M. Kollontai’s corrections to the Theses on Party Building
 7  A.G. Shliapnikov, ‘Our Intraparty Disagreements’
 8  A.G. Shliapnikov’s speeches to the Communist Faction of the Second
All-Russian Congress of Mineworkers
 9  N. Kopylov, ‘Mistake or Urgent Task?’
 10  N.M. Tikhonravov, Supplement to the Theses of the Workers’ Opposition
about the Tasks of Trade Unions
 11  Polosatov’s and Kuznetsov’s speeches at the Fourth CP(b)U Conference
of Donetsk gubernia, 16–18 February 1921
 12  Documents from Samara about the debates over party building, culture,
and the tasks of trade unions, February 1921
 13  Iu.K. Milonov, ‘Theses: the Content of our Cultural Work’, Eighth
Samara Gubernia RCP(b) Conference
 14  Iu.K. Milonov, ‘Trade Unions and their Role in the Economic life of
the Country: Theses of a Report to the Eighth Samara Gubernia Conference of
the RCP(b)’
 15  Speeches, Resolutions, Materials, and Declarations Relating to the
Workers’ Opposition at the Tenth Party Congress, March 1921
 16  Iu.K. Milonov, ‘Assembly of Former Underground Party Members during
the Tenth Party Congress’
3 From the Ban on Factions through the Eleventh Party Congress, 1921–2:
Former Worker Oppositionists Respond to the New Economic Policy and to
Repression Against Them
 1  A.M. Kollontai’s diary entries, March–April 1921
 2  Appeals of the Worker-Peasant Socialist Party led by Vasily Paniushkin,
early 1921
 3  A.G. Shliapnikov, ‘To the Fourth Congress of the All-Russian
Metalworkers’ Union (VSRM)’
 4  A.G. Shliapnikov, ‘Our Economic Policy and Practice’
 5  Speeches protesting party appointment of Metalworkers’ Union leaders;
protocols of the RCP CC’s commission, the bureau of the communist faction,
and the communist faction of the congress; and other materials relating to
the Fourth Congress of the Metalworkers’ Union in May 1921
 6  A.M. Kollontai’s speech to the Third Comintern Congress, 5 June 1921
 7  A.M. Kollontai’s diary entries, July–August 1921
 8  Letter from A.G. Shliapnikov to S.P. Medvedev, 28 June 1921
 9  Letter from A.G. Shliapnikov and S.P. Medvedev to the Politburo and
VTsSPS, July 1921, protesting VSNKh decrees
 10  Letter from [A.G. Shliapnikov] to comrade [N.S] Mamchenko, 6 July 1921
 11  Letter from F.A. Mitin to S.P. Medvedev, summer 1921
 12  Letter from A.G. Shliapnikov to F.A. Mitin
 13  Protocol and resolution from a meeting of RCP(b) members who had
belonged to the Workers’ Opposition, 8 July 1921
 14  Resolution offered by Aleksei Sovetov to the delegates’ assembly of
the Bauman district RCP(b) organisation, 29 July 1921
 15  Letter received by Ukrainian comrades in 1921 from a former member of
the Workers’ Opposition, perhaps Ivan Perepechko
 16  Letter from Levit of the Kommunistische Arbeiter-Partei Deutschlands
(KAPD) to A.G. Shliapnikov, 30 August 1921, and Shliapnikov’s signed
response, 31 August 1921
 17  Excerpts from speeches at the All-Russian Union of Metalworkers
central committee plenum, 17–21 October 1921
 18  Iu.Kh. Lutovinov’s speech to the Eleventh Party Conference, 19–22
December 1921, and related party documents
 19  Undated minutes from a meeting of the Workers’ Opposition or the 22
 20  A.G. Shliapnikov’s letter to the Politburo about the Genoa conference,
February 1922
 21  Protocol of a 10 February 1922 meeting of a group of 25 delegates to
the Fifth All-Russian Congress of Metalworkers and other minutes from
meetings of those who would sign the Letter of the 22
 22  Letter of the 22 to the Comintern, signed by Shliapnikov, Kollontai,
et al.
 23  Comparison of those signing the Letter of the 22 and the theses of the
Workers’ Opposition
 24  Selected Speeches at the Meeting of the RCP(b) Faction of the Fifth
Congress of the Metalworkers’ Union, 2–7 March 1922
 25  Letter from Z.L. Shadurskaia to the Politburo, 8 March 1922
 26  Letter from S.P. Medvedev to the Orgburo, 9 March 1922
 27  A.G. Shliapnikov’s correspondence regarding the 22, March 1922
 28  Party Central Control Commission (CCC) questioning of the 22, 17 March
1922
 29  Letter from V.L. Paniushkin in support of Shliapnikov and Medvedev, on
the eve of the Eleventh Party Congress
 30  N. Kopylov, ‘For a United Party’
 31  Eleventh Congress of the RCP(b), March–April 1922, Published Speeches
at Open Sessions, Unpublished Speeches at 2 April 1922 Closed Session,
Published Resolution and other Materials Relating to the Former Workers’
Opposition
 32  A.M. Kollontai’s diary entries on the appeal of the 22 and on the
Eleventh Party Congress
 33  Letter from A.M. Kollontai to the Comintern Executive Committee,
copying the Politburo
 34  Letter from A.M. Kollontai to the editorial board of the ‘Communist
Worker Newspaper’ of Germany, requesting that it cease publication of her
brochure, Rabochaia Oppozitsiia, 22 September 1921
 35  Iu.K. Milonov, ‘On the Way to a Worker Encyclopedia: Instead of a
Preface’
4 Former Worker Oppositionists in the Debates of the NEP Era and During the
First Five-Year Plan, 1922–30
 1  Letter from S.P. Medvedev in Berlin to A.G. Shliapnikov in Moscow, 26
September 1922
 2  Iu.Kh. Lutovinov’s speech at the Twelfth RCP(b) Congress, 17–25 April
1923
 3  S.P. Medvedev’s notes from 6 December 1923, possibly from a private
talk given in Moscow by an unidentified German communist
 4  N.A. Kubiak’s speech to the Thirteenth Party Conference, 17 January
1924
 5  A.G. Shliapnikov, ‘Our Differences’, Pravda, 18 January 1924
 6  Resolution proposed by A.G. Shliapnikov and others from the former
Workers’ Opposition, [January] 1924
 7  A.G. Shliapnikov’s speeches at the Second Khamovniki District Party
Conference, Moscow, 7–10 January 1924
 8  S.P. Medvedev, ‘Letter to a Baku Comrade’, 1924
 9  Letter from S.P. Medvedev in Moscow to A.G. Shliapnikov in France,
written 27 December 1924, and A.G. Shliapnikov’s answering letter, dated 7
January 1925, written in Paris
 10  A.G. Shliapnikov, ‘Features of the Current Moment: About Results of
the Fourteenth Party Conference’, with S.P. Medvedev’s suggested changes,
May 1925
 11  A.M. Kollontai’s diary notes, February 1926 and November [1927]
 12  Letter from I.I. Nikolaenko, Kiev [to A.G. Shliapnikov and S.P.
Medvedev], circa 1926
 13  Letter from A.G. Shliapnikov, Moscow, to [I.I. Nikolaenko], 12 May
1926
 14  A.G. Shliapnikov, ‘About a Demonstrative Attack and the Rightist
Danger in the Party’
 15  Letter from A.G. Shliapnikov and S.P. Medvedev to the CCC Presidium
and the Politburo of the CC VKP(b), 17 September 1926
 16  Letters from A.G. Shliapnikov and S.P. Medvedev to the Politburo, CC
and CCC VKP(b), October 1926
 17  A.G. Shliapnikov, ‘Letter to the Editor’
 18  Undated letter from unknown person (perhaps Mariia Trifonova), to
Shliapnikov replied in a 19 July 1927 letter
 19  Letter from Aleksandr [Shliapnikov] to unknown person, 19 July 1927
 20  A.G. Shliapnikov, ‘Lessons of Intraparty Struggle’
 21  A.G. Shliapnikov, ‘For Industrialisation and For Socialism’
 22  A.G. Shliapnikov, ‘Letter to the Editor’
 23  A.G. Shliapnikov’s letter to the Bureau of the Omsk District (Okrug)
Party Committee, 4 April 1930
 24  A.G. Shliapnikov, ‘A Big Mistake by a Small Group in Omsk’, 28
February 1930
 25  Letter from A.G. Shliapnikov and S.P. Medvedev to the CCC, 28 April
1930, with a copy to the Politburo
Biographical Glossary
Bibliography
Index