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Proposals to the Draft Decision for the CC, RCP(b) Plenum on Clause 13 of the Party Programme
Source: Lenin Collected Works, 3nd English Printing, Progress Publishers, 1977, Moscow, Volume 42, pages 302c-303a
This document was written by Lenin in connection with the discussion on May 18, 1921, by the CC. plenum of the question of implementing Clause 13 of the Party Programme dealing with measures in the sphere of religious relations. Leninâs motion was adopted by the plenum.
Yaroslavsky and Bukharin to be instructed to revise the draft so as not to over-emphasise the question of combating religion (by throwing out § 7, for instance[1]) and to allow, under definite restrictive conditions, for religious, but honest and devoted Communists, to remain in the Party.
The fight against religion to be put on a more scientific footing.
(§ 10-out.[2])
Get it endorsed by the Politbureau.
Start the campaign after thorough preparation.
- â Point 7 of the plenumâs original draft resolution, required that the question of the Partyâs attitude to religion âbe put before all Party cells and committees. The Agitation and Propaganda Department shall draft and send out preliminary theses of a report. The minutes of meetings arid generally all material dealing with this question nra to be collected locally, forwarded to the Central Committee, and worked up for a report to the Eleventh Congress of the RCPâ (Central Party Archives, Institute of Marxism-Leninism of the CC of the CPSU).
- â Point 10 of the original draft resolution spoke of the necessity of the Party conducting a most decisive struggle against attempts on the part of âsome of the clergy to set up anew church organisationâ accommodated to the state organisation. During the 1930s, sections of the Orthodox Church were co-opted into the State as a way of legitimizing actions of the government during the collectivization of agriculture and the purge trials that took place against the old leadership of the Communist Party.