10th Congress of the RCP(b)
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The 10th Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks) was held during March 8-16, 1921 in Moscow
. Halfway through the Congress, the Kronstadt uprising started.
Major points discussed included:
Moscow
Moscow is the capital, the most populous city, and the most populous federal subject of Russia. The city is a major political, economic, cultural, scientific, religious, financial, educational, and transportation centre of Russia and the continent...
. Halfway through the Congress, the Kronstadt uprising started.
Major points discussed included:
- A ban on internal factions in the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks)Communist Party of the Soviet UnionThe Communist Party of the Soviet Union was the only legal, ruling political party in the Soviet Union and one of the largest communist organizations in the world...
(Resolution No. 12). These factions included Trotskyists, Worker's Opposition (who supported syndicalismSyndicalismSyndicalism is a type of economic system proposed as a replacement for capitalism and an alternative to state socialism, which uses federations of collectivised trade unions or industrial unions...
), and Democratic Centralists, who wanted more Soviet autonomy. - The New Economic PolicyNew Economic PolicyThe New Economic Policy was an economic policy proposed by Vladimir Lenin, who called it state capitalism. Allowing some private ventures, the NEP allowed small animal businesses or smoke shops, for instance, to reopen for private profit while the state continued to control banks, foreign trade,...
was decided. Foreign trade, banks and heavy industry would stay in state hands, the rest was privatized.
External link
- Speeches by V. I. Lenin at the Tenth Congress of the R.C.P.(B.), Collected Works, 1st English Edition, Progress Publishers, Moscow, 1965, Volume 32, pages 165-271