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Letter to Members of the Politbureau of the CC, RCP(b), April 19, 1920
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Written between April 19 and May 6, 1920
Published: First published in 1965 in the Fifth Russian Edition of the Collected Works, Vol. 54. Printed from the manuscript.
Source: Lenin Collected Works, 2nd English Printing, Progress Publishers, 1971, Moscow, Volume 42, page 187b.
Published: First published in 1965 in the Fifth Russian Edition of the Collected Works, Vol. 54. Printed from the manuscript.
Source: Lenin Collected Works, 2nd English Printing, Progress Publishers, 1971, Moscow, Volume 42, page 187b.
To Members of the Politbureau:
Please read this. Interesting. I am for seeking a compromise with them.[1]
Lenin
- â Leninâs note was written in connection with the decisions of the Twelfth Conference of the Bund held April 42-19, 1920. The resolutions of this conference with Leninâs marks are to be found in the Central Party Archives of the Institute of Marxism-Leninism of the CC, CPSU In the resolution âOn the. Present Situation and the Tasks of Our Partyâ Lenin marked oil the following passage: 14. Summing up the experience of the last year, the Twelfth Conference of the Bund finds: 1) that the Bund, in principle, had adopted the communist platform since the Eleventh Conference, 2) that the Programme of the Communist Party, which is also the programme of the Soviet government, corresponds with the fundamental platform of the Bund, 3) that a âunited socialist frontâ with principled opponents of Soviet power, who draw a line between the proletariat and its government, is impossible, 4) that the moment has come when the Bund can relinquish its official oppositional stand and take upon itself responsibility for the Soviet governmentâs policy.â
At the same time, the resolution on organisational questions stated that âthe logical consequence of the political stand adopted by the Bund is the latterâs entry into the RCP on the same basis as the Bundâs membership of the RSDLP (underlined by Lenin). The conference uthorised the CC of the Bund to see to it, as an essential condition, that the Bund preserve within the RCP the status of ,an autonomous organisation of the Jewish proletariatâ (marked off by Lenin).
On May 6, 1920, the Politbureau of the CC. RCP(b) discussed the question of ,The Conditions for the Bundâs Admission to Membership of the RCPâ and resolved: ,that Kamenay, Stalin and Preobrazhensky be authorised to receive the representatives of the Bund and hear their proposalsâ (Central Party Archives, Institute of Marxism-Leninism of the CC, C.P.S.TJ.).
At its Thirteenth Conference in 1921 the Bund decided to dissolve itself, and part of its membership joined the RCP(b) on the basis of the rules of admission.