Left Communists (Soviet Russia)
Left Communists левые коммунисты | |
|---|---|
| Leader | Nikolai Bukharin |
| Founded | c. January 1918 |
| Dissolved | c. late 1918 |
| Succeeded by | Workers' Opposition Military Opposition |
| Ideology | Marxism Communism |
| Political position | Far-left |
| National affiliation | Russian Communist Party |
The Left Communists (
At the
The faction largely died out by the end of 1918, as its leaders accepted that their program was unrealistic in the circumstances of the developing Russian Civil War and as the policies of War communism satisfied their demands for a radical transformation of the economy. The Military Opposition and the Workers' Opposition inherited some characteristics and members of the Left Communists, and the tendency re-emerged in Gavril Myasnikov's Workers Group during the debates on the New Economic Policy and the succession to Lenin. Most Left Communists were affiliated with Leon Trotsky's Left Opposition in the 1920s and expelled from the party at the 15th Party Congress (2–19 December 1927), and later killed in Joseph Stalin's Great Purge.[3]
References
- ^ Daniels 2007, p. 108.
- ^ Daniels 2007, p. 110.
- ^ ISBN 978-1-4422-5280-6.
- ^ Daniels 2007, p. 109.
Cited works
- Daniels, Robert V. (2007). "Left Communism in the Revolutionary Era". The Rise and Fall of Communism in Russia. ISBN 978-0-300-10649-7.
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