The group of democratic centralism ( "decists" ) is a group in the RCP (B.) That arose in early 1919 . It was headed by the leaders of the " Left Communists " - T. V. Sapronov, V. V. Osinsky, V. N. Maksimovsky, M. S. Boguslavsky and others. By 1920, they created a separate faction, which became the basis of the "Group of Democratic Centralism" [1] . After the decision of the X Congress of the RCP (b) on the dissolution of all anti-Bolshevik parties, a part of the "decists" did not agree with this decision and continued the struggle, which resulted in the decision of the XV Congress of the RCP (b) to expel 23 members of the group from the party, as well as evaluating their activities as anti-revolutionary.
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Group Composition
Many representatives of the group formerly belonged to the faction of the “ Left Communists ” or to the “ military opposition ”. “Decists” opposed democratic centralism to “bureaucratic centralism”, opposed the bureaucratization of the party and Soviet bodies, at the 9th congress - against unity of command in the management of enterprises, and after the 10th congress , which prohibited factions and groups in the RCP (B.) - for freedom of factions and groups within party.
The group was headed by V.V. Osinsky , T.V. Sapronov , V.N. Maksimovsky , V.M. Smirnov , A.S. Bubnov , V.V. Kosior , and Y. N. Drobnis .
The group of "decists" showed the greatest political activity at the IX Congress of the RCP (B.) .
In 1923, the "decists" supported L. D. Trotsky and became an integral part of the Left Opposition . They were the only ones who managed to get the majority of votes at the district party conference in Khamovniki and form a district committee headed by V.N. Maksimovsky [2] .
Subsequently, some “decists,” for example, A. S. Bubnov and V. V. Osinsky, withdrew from the opposition, others, including T. V. Sapronov and V. M. Smirnov, diverging their views with Trotsky (considering him not radical enough), in 1926 they formed their own group - the “group of 15” (aka “Sapronov's group”) and were expelled from the party by the decision of the 15th congress along with the “Trotsky-Zinoviev’s” opposition. Finally, others, like V.V. Kosior and J. N. Drobnis, teamed up with Trotsky's supporters.
The leaders of the "decists" who did not depart from the opposition were among the most stubborn and stubborn oppositionists: never repenting, they consistently moved from exile to political isolators, from there to the camps. During the years of the Great Terror , they were all shot, including former "decists" who had left the opposition in the mid-1920s.
Group of 15
Notes
- ↑ Group of Democratic Centralism / Soviet Historical Encyclopedia. - M .: Soviet Encyclopedia. Ed. E. M. Zhukova
- ↑ Reznik A.V. Trotsky and comrades: the Left Opposition and the Political Culture of the RCP (B.), 1923-1924. - St. Petersburg: Publishing House of the European University in St. Petersburg, 2017 .-- S. 241-255.
See also
- Buffer group
- Democratic centralism