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Political party congress
The
7th (extraordinary) Congress of the RSDLP(b)
(
Russian Social Democratic Labor Party
), also known as the
Extraordinary 7th Congress of the RCP(b)
(
Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks)
), was held between 6?8 March 1918. During this congress the
Bolsheviks
changed the name of the party to include the word "
Communist
".
It was the first congress of the Bolsheviks after their gaining of power in the
October Revolution
. It was held in the
Taurida Palace
in
Petrograd
(St. Petersburg) in extraordinary session to consider the peace treaty with
Germany
to end
World War I
, concluded by the
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
earlier in March.
The 47
plenipotentiary
and 59 consultative delegates represented about 17,000 Party members. The actual Party head count was about 300,000, but many delegates could not arrive on such short notice, partially because of the German occupation of significant territory.
The agenda was:
Brest Peace
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The Brest Peace was an issue of fierce controversy within the Party. The Brest Peace was opposed by the faction of the
Left Communists
, who were led by
Nickolay Bukharin
and were influential in the major party organizations: in
Moscow
, Petrograd, and the
Urals
. There was little unity among the supporters of the Brest Peace.
After Lenin's report, Bukharin presented a second report, demanding that the war with Germany continue.
After heated discussions, Lenin's version of the
Resolution On War And Peace
was approved at the morning session of March 8 by a signed vote: 30 in favor, 12 against, 4 abstained. Lenin's proposal, was not made public at that time and was first published in the January 1, 1919
Kommunar
, a daily newspaper issued by the Central Committee for workers in Moscow.
The Brest Peace was ratified by the Extraordinary
Fourth All-Russia Congress of Soviets
(March 14?16).
List of elected members to the Central Committee
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The Contress elected the following members to the Central Committee (by number of received votes):
Elected Members
- Lenin (Ulyanov) Vladimir Ilyich
- Trotsky Lev Davidovich
- Sverdlov Yakov Mikhailovich
- Zinoviev Grigorii Evseevich
- Bukharin Nikolai Ivanovich
- Stalin Iosif Vissarionovich
- Sokolnikov Grigori Iakovlevich
- Krestinsky Nikolai Nikolaevich
- Smilga Ivar Tenisovich
- Stasova Elena Dmitrievna
- Lashevich Mikhail Mikhailovich
- Shmidt Vasilii Vladimirovich
- Dzerzhinsky Feliks Edmundovich
- Vladimirsky Mikhail Fedorovich
- Artem (Sergeev Fedor Andreevich)
Candidates
- Ioffe Adolf Abramovich
- Kiselev Aleksei Semenovich
- Berzin Ian Antonovich
- Uritsky Moisei Solomonovich
- Stuchka Petr Ivanovich
- Petrovsky Grigory Ivanovich
- Lomov (Oppokov) Georgy Ippolitovich
- Shliapnikov Aleksandr Gavrilovich
External links
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- Speeches by Lenin
at the Extraordinary Seventh Congress of the R.C.P.(B.),
Collected Works
, Progress Publishers, Moscow, Volume 27, 1972, pages 85?158
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References
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- "Seventh Congress of the Russian Communist Party. Verbatim Report. March 6?8, 1918" (1923)