10th Party Congress

Dates

8-16 March 1921
- Lenin made two points as he introduced NEP in 'party unity'. HELD DURING THE KRONSTADT REBELLION
- 1,100 delegates representing 750 000 party members.

Opposition in the Congress

Workers Opposition,

breaking from the party in 1920. Headed by Alexandra Kollontai and Aleksandr Shylapnikov. Concerns over
- Disliked Trotsk's's efforts to militarise the workplace
- Trotsky's proposal to put worker unions under government control
- Bourgeoise being hired to take control of factories
- The Bolshevik's autocratic nature and bureaucratic nature (a big government that over sees anything like the Tsarist regime)
- Concerned the party was dominated by self-serving officials and becoming too bureaucratic → concerned that party was dominated by self-serving officials.

Democratic Centralists
- Concerned of the bureaucratis, arguing that the self-party debate and the democratic element of democratic centralism had been lost.

Response

On Party unity
- Very quick decree, demands of pooisition factionrs were "Inconsistent with membership"
- stops oppositional parties, creating factions (stopping parties from disagreeing and kicked out from Sovnarkom)

Primary Quotes

"I do not think it will be necessary for me to say much on this subject."
Lenin, and he also said
"...ensuring that no factionalism of any sort be tolerated."

"Comrades, this is no time to have an opposition."
- Lenin

"Are we really the prop of the class dictatorship, or just an obedient flock..."
- Kollontai saying that the regime is losing touch with the workers, workers are not represented
"Communism belongs to the workers."
- Kollontai

"...Lenin took firm steps to prevent the party being torn apart over it."
- Lynch