12th Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks)
The 12th Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks) was held during 17–25 April 1923 in Moscow. The congress elected the 12th Central Committee. It was attended by 408 delegates with deciding votes and 417 with consultative votes, representing 386,000 party members.[1] This was the last congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks) (RCP(b) during Vladimir Lenin's leadership, though Lenin was unable to attend due to illness.[1][2]
Agenda
L.Kamenev and L.Trotsky with delegates of the Congress
At this Congress, the RCP(b) redefined the problems of nationalism identifying local chauvinism as the main problem rather than Great Russian chauvinism. The Congress was the beginning of the so-called policy of Korenizatsiya. The main idea was to grow national cadres for every nationality so that the party line could be pursued everywhere by representatives of the local nationality and the national proletariat could be raised against its own exploiters.[3]
Notes
^ a bTwelfth Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolshevik); The Great Soviet Encyclopedia, 3rd Edition (1970-1979)
^"Footage from the 12th congress of the Russian Communist Party (bolsheviks)".
^Timo Vihavainen: Nationalism and Internationalism. How did the Bolsheviks Cope with National Sentiments? in Chulos & Piirainen 2000, p. 80
References
Chulos, Chris J.; Piirainen, Timo, eds. (2000). The Fall of an Empire, the Birth of a Nation. Helsinki: Ashgate. ISBN 1-85521-902-6.
Muslim National Communism in the Soviet Union by Alexandre Bennigsen and S. Enders Wimbush, University of Chicago Press, 1979.
Verbatim Report of Stalin's speeches From J. V. Stalin, Works, Foreign Languages Publishing House, Moscow, 1953 Vol. 5, pp. 197–285. Retrieved 26 May 2008.