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.

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Workers’ Opposition canonical 3
Workers’ Opposition movement 1

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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
consideredByLeadershipAs factional deviation
country Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
linked to: Russian SFSR
criticized state control of industry without workers’ management
criticizedBy Russian Communist Party leadership
Vladimir Lenin
dissolvedAsFaction early 1920s
documentedIn The Workers’ Opposition (pamphlet)
emergedInContextOf Russian Civil War
War Communism
debates on trade unions in the Soviet state
facedResolution On Party Unity (1921)
linked to: On Party Unity
historicalRegion Soviet Russia
linked to: Russian SFSR
ideology left-wing communism
syndicalism
workers’ control
influenced later left opposition currents in the Soviet Union
keyFigure Alexander Shlyapnikov
Alexandra Kollontai
Sergei Medvedev
languageOfActivity Russian
leader Alexander Shlyapnikov
leadingTheorist Alexandra Kollontai
notableEvent 10th Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks)
operatedIn Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks)
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
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)

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Alexander Shlyapnikov memberOf Workers’ Opposition
Alexander Shlyapnikov movement Workers’ Opposition movement
linked to: Workers’ Opposition
Bolshevik Party debates of the 1920s opposedBy Workers’ Opposition