CONFERENCES and RESOLUTIONS - December, 1924

MESSAGE OF GREETINGS FROM THE TENTH ORENBURG GUBERNIA CONFERENCE OF THE RCP(B) TO THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE RUSSIAN COMMUNIST PARTY (BOLSHEVIKS)

December 7, 1924

The Tenth Orenburg Gubernia Conference of the RCP(B) considers as impermissible any attempt on Trotsky’s part to spark a discussion calling in question the principles of Bolshevism, any attempt at revising Leninism and any deviation from it. The Conference emphatically condemns such deviations.

At the same time, the Conference considers that it is vital for members and candidate members of the Party to begin immediately an intensive study of the real history of the RCP(B) and the October Revolution in the light of Lenin’s behests as a means of Party education.

The Conference insists that the Party CC take stringent measures against any deviation from Bolshevism.

Presidium of the Tenth Orenburg Gubernia Party Conference

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RESOLUTION OF THE FIFTH PARTY CONFERENCE OF THE KRASNAYA PRESNYA DISTRICT, MOSCOW, ON THE REPORT OF THE WORK OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE RCP(B)

December 13, 1924

Having heard the report on the work of the Central Committee, the Fifth Party Conference of the Krasnaya Presnya District wholly and completely approves the political line and practical work of the Party Central Committee.

The Conference notes with satisfaction the major successes of the Central Committee’s foreign policy line, which culminated in the recognition of the USSR by all the leading capitalist powers of Europe, and also the conspicuous achievements in the Soviet Union in the development and strengthening of the national economy, in balancing the budget and effecting the union between town and countryside.

The Conference considers as absolutely correct the course towards the Bolshevisation of the fraternal parties of the West as charted by the Fifth Congress of the Comintern and successfully pursued by the RCP delegation in the Comintern Executive.

The Conference regards these undeniable successes as indisputable proof of the correctness of the political line and practical leadership of the CC and the untenability of the line which the petty- bourgeois opposition contraposed to the Leninist stand of the CC during the first discussion.

The Conference assesses Trotsky’s latest so-called literary pronouncement as a new attack on the leading nucleus of the CC and as another attempt to revise the principles of Leninism by replacing them with Trotskyism, which is a variety of Menshevism.

While denouncing Trotsky’s pronouncement, the Conference considers that an end must be put once and for all to his indiscipline and opposition to the entire CC, which is the collective leader of our Party.

The Conference regards the decisions of the Thirteenth Party Congress and of the Fifth Congress of the Comintern as absolutely immutable and expects them to be considered as binding not only for rank-and-file members of the Party but also for Trotsky.

On behalf of the 22,000 members of the Krasnaya Presnya organisation the Conference assures the Leninist CC of its complete support for all its measures to achieve a further strengthening of the Soviet Union’s internal situation and position abroad, for all its measures directed towards strengthening the Party on the basis of uncompromising Leninism, and safeguarding the ideological heritage of Comrade Lenin against petty-bourgeois revision.

The Party in the Struggle for the

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RESOLUTION OF THE FOURTH PARTY CONFERENCE OF THE ROGOZHSKY-SIMONOVSKY DISTRICT, MOSCOW, ON M. V. FRUNZE’S REPORT ON THE WORK OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE RCP(B)

December 15, 1924

Having heard Comrade Frunze’s report on the work of the Central Committee, the Fourth Rogozhsky-Simonovsky District Conference fully approves the political and organisational line of the Central Committee of the RCP(B) in home and foreign policy.

The Conference notes that the uninterrupted growth and strengthening of the national economy are the best proof of the total bankruptcy of last year’s opposition and of the correctness of the Central Committee’s leadership.

The Conference takes particular note of the Central Committee’s measures to raise the economic and 

cultural level of the countryside, improve the local government apparatus and strengthen the alliance of the working class with the peasants.

The Conference most emphatically condemns the actions of Trotsky, who is again trying to direct the

Party along the false road of departure from the fundamental precepts of the teaching of Lenin.

The Conference expresses the confidence that the Central Committee will be able to safeguard theParty against possible further actions of this kind by Trotsky.

The Rogozhsky-Simonovsky organisation of the RCP(B), which has time and again proved its Bolshevik staunchness, declares that it will always be in the front ranks of the struggle for Leninism.

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From THE RESOLUTION OF THE FOURTH PARTY CONFERENCE OF THE BAUMANSKY DISTRICT, MOSCOW, ON THE REPORT OF THE WORK OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE RCP(B)

December 19, 1924

The Conference acclaims the uncompromising Bolshevik ideological rebuff which the leading Leninist nucleus of the CC has given to Trotsky’s attempt to plunge the Party into another discussion, revise the principles of Leninism and distort the history of the Party and the Revolution.

The Conference considers Trotsky’s latest literary work an act against the Party and indignantly rejects as worthless to the Party the old, Menshevik theory of Trotskyism, which this work attempts to palm off on the Party.

The Party will not allow itself to be headed off the correct, genuinely revolutionary road charted by Lenin, a road that has been tested by the entire history of the working-class struggle in Russia.

The Conference declares that exhaustive measures must be taken to exclude any further attempts by Trotsky to demolish the policy and leadership of our Party.

Long live Leninism! Long live the Bolshevik Central

Committee!

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From THE RESOLUTION OF THE THIRD PARTY CONFERENCE OF THE ZAMOSKVORECHYE DISTRICT, MOSCOW, ON M. I. KALININ’S REPORT ON THE WORK

OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE RCP(B)

December 20, 1924

The Third Zamoskvorechye District Party Conference unanimously denounces Trotsky’s attempt to revise Leninism, distort the history of the October Revolution and replace Leninism with Trotskyism, which is a variety of Menshevism. The Conference suggests that at its next meeting the Central Committee should examine Trotsky’s pronouncement and give a resolute rebuff to his attempts to substitute Trotskyism for Leninism, under whose banner our Party came into being, grew and moved from victory to victory.

The Conference notes that our delegation in the Comintern acted correctly in aiming to turn all the sections of the Comintern into genuinely Bolshevik parties.

Today our Party is united on the basis of Leninism and is stronger than ever before. Closer ties must be established with the workers and the peasant masses, and the Party must redouble its efforts in the struggle for the development of our Soviet Union and for the world revolution.

Long live our Leninist Central Committee! Long live the Leninist Comintern!

Long live uncompromising Leninism!

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From THE RESOLUTION OF THE EIGHTEENTH NOVGOROD GUBERNIA CONFERENCE OF THE RCP(B)

December 1924

1. THE STRENGTHENING OF LENINISM

The discussion of Trotsky’s article “Lessons of the October Revolution” has shown that in the main the Party organisation has understood the anti-Leninist substance of this article and has steered a fully consistent line towards preventing any Menshevik-petty-bourgeois vacillation among the youngest and inadequately steeled section of the Party organisation. Nonetheless, the Conference considers that one of the immediate tasks for the winter period must be the study of the Party’s history and the fundamental points of divergence between Bolshevism and Trotskyism.

The propaganda departments of the uyezd and gubernia committees must make sure that propagandists are thoroughly conversant with the divergences between Bolshevism and Trotskyism in order to give young members of the Party organisation a correct understanding of the essence of Bolshevism, and of the history of the Party and the Revolution.

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RESOLUTION OF A MEETING OF THE PARTY CELL AT THE TRYOKHGORNAYA TEXTILE MILL, KRASNAYA PRESNYA DISTRICT, MOSCOW, ON THE REPORT OF THE KRASNAYA PRESNYA DISTRICT COMMITTEE OF THE RCP(B)

1924

Having heard the report by Comrade Vasilyev on the work of the Krasnaya Presnya District Committee, the General Meeting of RCP(B) members of the cell at the Tryokhgornaya Textile Mill finds the work of the District Committee satisfactory. During the period of its work among the worker masses in the Krasnaya Presnya the District Committee has consistently pursued the Leninist line, educating the workers in the spirit of Bolshevism. The result of this work is that the District Committee has strengthened the RCP’s ties with and influence over the non-Party masses in the Krasnaya Presnya District. The Meeting considers that the District Committee must further intensify its work of promoting the Party’s ties with and influence over the non-Party masses, strictly purging the Party ranks of alien elements and safeguarding the purity of its weapon—Leninism—against all 

non-Bolshevik deviations. In implementing the decisions of the Thirteenth Party Congress, the District Committee will rally the working class round its leader, the RCP, under the banner of Leninism, which has been tested in the battles for the cause of the working class. The meeting considers that Trotsky’s attempt to revise Leninism shows that he is contraposing himself to the Party and ignoring the role played by the Party in the October Revolution. We categorically protest against this attitude of Trotsky’s and declare that we shall not tolerate any encroachment on the teaching of Lenin, which has embodied the interests of the working class and with which the working class triumphed in the October Revolution.

(Carried unanimously.)

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