Tenth Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks)

E42087

The Tenth Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks) was a pivotal 1921 party gathering that marked a major strategic shift in early Soviet policy, including the formal turn from War Communism toward limited market-oriented reforms.

Jump to: Surface forms Statements Referenced by

Observed surface forms (1)


Statements (50)

Predicate Object
instanceOf party congress
political event
chairperson Vladimir Lenin
chronologicalPosition Tenth Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks) self-linksurface differs
surface form: tenth congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks)
context Kronstadt rebellion
surface form: Kronstadt rebellion of 1921

aftermath of the Russian Civil War
economic crisis in Soviet Russia
peasant unrest in 1920–1921
country Russian SFSR
surface form: Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
endTime 1921-03-16
followedBy Eleventh Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks)
hasEffect abandonment of War Communism
introduction of the New Economic Policy
legalisation of limited private trade
partial reintroduction of market mechanisms in the Soviet economy
replacement of grain requisitioning with a tax in kind
strengthening of central party control over the state and economy
languageOfWorkOrName Russian
location Moscow
Russia
mainSubject Kronstadt rebellion context
economic reconstruction after the Russian Civil War
internal party democracy and factionalism
trade union question in Soviet Russia
transition from War Communism to the New Economic Policy
numberOfDelegates about 300 non-voting delegates
about 694 voting delegates
organisedBy Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (Bolsheviks)
surface form: Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks)
partOf history of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks)
history of the Soviet Union
passedResolution On Party Unity
On the Substitution of a Tax in Kind for the Surplus-Grain Appropriation System
On the Syndicalist and Anarchist Deviation in Our Party
Bolshevik Party program
surface form: On the Tasks of the Party in the Present Situation

On the Tax in Kind
On the Trade Unions
pointInTime March 1921
politicalLine ban on factions within the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks)
centralisation of party leadership
temporary concessions to peasant and small-scale private trade
precededBy Ninth Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks)
significance consolidated one-party rule and limited intra-party democracy in the Soviet state
marked a major strategic shift in early Soviet economic policy
significantParticipant Alexei Rykov
Grigory Zinoviev
Joseph Stalin
Leon Trotsky
Nikolai Bukharin
Vladimir Lenin
startTime 1921-03-08

Referenced by (2)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

New Economic Policy approvedBy Tenth Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks)
Tenth Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks) chronologicalPosition Tenth Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks) self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: tenth congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks)