Workers’ Opposition
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Workers’ Opposition was a faction within the Russian Communist Party in the early 1920s that advocated greater control of industry by trade unions and rank-and-file workers.
Observed surface forms (1)
| Surface form | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Workers’ Opposition movement | 1 |
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
communist opposition group
ⓘ
intra-party opposition ⓘ political faction ⓘ |
| activeDuring | early 1920s ⓘ |
| advocated |
greater control of industry by rank-and-file workers
ⓘ
greater control of industry by trade unions ⓘ |
| associatedWithSocialBase |
industrial workers in Russia
ⓘ
metalworkers ⓘ |
| authorOfProgrammaticText | Alexandra Kollontai NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| consideredByLeadershipAs | factional deviation ⓘ |
| country |
Russian SFSR
ⓘ
surface form:
Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
|
| criticized | state control of industry without workers’ management ⓘ |
| criticizedBy |
Russian Communist Party leadership
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Vladimir Lenin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| dissolvedAsFaction | early 1920s ⓘ |
| documentedIn | The Workers’ Opposition (pamphlet) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| emergedInContextOf |
Russian Civil War
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
War Communism NERFINISHED ⓘ debates on trade unions in the Soviet state ⓘ |
| facedResolution | On Party Unity (1921) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| historicalRegion | Soviet Russia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ideology |
left-wing communism
ⓘ
syndicalism ⓘ workers’ control ⓘ |
| influenced | later left opposition currents in the Soviet Union ⓘ |
| keyFigure |
Alexander Shlyapnikov
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Alexandra Kollontai NERFINISHED ⓘ Sergei Medvedev NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfActivity | Russian ⓘ |
| leader | Alexander Shlyapnikov NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| leadingTheorist | Alexandra Kollontai NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableEvent | 10th Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| operatedIn | Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| opposed |
bureaucratization of the party
ⓘ
centralization of economic management ⓘ |
| politicalPosition | left opposition ⓘ |
| proposed |
elected workers’ bodies to run industry
ⓘ
transfer of management of the national economy to trade unions ⓘ |
| suppressedBy | Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks) leadership NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| timePeriod |
1920
ⓘ
1921 ⓘ |
| topic |
democracy within the communist party
ⓘ
relationship between party and working class ⓘ role of trade unions in a workers’ state ⓘ |
| wasBannedAs | faction within the Russian Communist Party ⓘ |
| wasCondemnedBy | 10th Congress resolution on party unity ⓘ |
| wasDebatedAt | 10th Party Congress (1921) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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Workers’ Opposition movement