10th Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks)

The 10th Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks) was held during March 8â€"16, 1921 in Moscow. Halfway through the Congress, the Kronstadt uprising started.

The Congress was attended by 694 voting delegates and 296 non-voting delegates.

The Agenda consisted of:

1. ) Report of the Central Committee;
2. ) Report of the Control Commission;
3. ) The trade unions’ economic role;
4. ) The Socialist Republic in a capitalist encirclement foreign trade, concessions, etc.;
5. ) Food supply, surplus-food appropriation, tax in kind and fuel crisis,
6. ) Problems of Party organisation;
7. ) The Party’s current tasks in the nationalities question;
8. ) Reorganisation of the army and the militia question;
9. ) The Chief Administration for Political Education and the Party’s propaganda and agitation work;
10. ) Report of the R.C.P.’s representative in the Comintern, and its current tasks;
11. ) Report of the R.C.P.’s representatives in the International Trade Union Council;
12. ) Elections to the Central Committee, the Control Commission and the Auditing Commission.

Major decisions included:

• A ban on internal factions in the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks) (Resolution No. 12: "On Party Unity”). These factions included Workers' Opposition (who supported syndicalism), and Democratic Centralists, who wanted more Soviet autonomy.
• The New Economic Policy was decided. Foreign trade, banks and heavy industry would stay in state hands, the rest was privatized.

References

External links

• 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
• Tenth Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolshevik) The Great Soviet Encyclopedia, 3rd Edition (1970-1979).