THE STRUGGLE WAGED BY THE BOLSHEVIK PARTY AGAINST TROTSKYISM IN 1926-1927

JOINT PLENARY MEETING OF THE CC AND CCC CPSU(B)

October 23 and 26, 1926152

RESOLUTION “ON THE SITUATION IN THE PARTY  IN CONNECTION WITH THE FACTIONAL ACTIVITIES AND VIOLATION OF PARTY DISCIPLINE BY SOME CC MEMBERS”

The following draft decision moved by Comrade Kirov on behalf of Leningrad members of the CC is 

adopted:

(1) In view of the violation of Party discipline by CC members Trotsky, Zinoviev, Kamenev, Pyatakov, Yevdokimov, Sokolnikov and Smilga and alternate member of the CC Comrade Nikolayeva, the plenary meeting of the CC and CCC cautions these Comrades and calls their attention to the impermissibility of conduct of this kind on the part of members of the Party’s leading institution.

(2) In view of the fact that Zinoviev does not pursue the line of the CPSU(B) in the Communist International and by virtue of his leadership of factional activity in the Communist International he has lost the trust of a number of Communist parties (German, British, French, American and others), which have placed this on record in their decisions, the CC and CCC find that Zinoviev can no longer continue working in the Communist International.

(3) In view of the leadership given by Trotsky and Kamenev to factional activities in the period after the July plenary meeting of the CC and CCC, the present plenary meeting of the CC and CCC decrees that Trotsky shall be relieved of his post as member of the Political Bureau of the CC, and Kamenev of his duties as alternate member of the Political Bureau of the CC.

The CPSU in Resolutions etc.,

8th Russ. ed., Vol. 3, pp. 360-61