Stalin Internet Archive: Collected Works Volume 8

THE FIGHT AGAINST RIGHT AND “ULTRA-LEFT” DEVIATIONS. Two Speeches at a Meeting of the Presidium of the E.C.C.I., January 22, 1926

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PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION OF THE COLLECTION QUESTIONS OF LENINISM

CONCERNING QUESTIONS OF LENINISM

I. The Definition of Leninism

II. The Main Thing in Leninism

III. The Question of “Permanent” Revolution

IV. The Proletarian Revolution and the Dictatorship of the Proletariat

V. The Party and the Working Class in the System of the Dictatorship of the Proletariat

VI. The Question of the Victory of Socialism in One Country

VII. The Fight for the Victory of Socialist Construction

THE PEASANTRY AS AN ALLY OF THE WORKING CLASS. Reply to Comrades P. F. Boltnev, V. I. Efremov and V. I. Ivlev

THE POSSIBILITY OF BUILDING SOCIALISM IN OUR COUNTRY. Reply to Comrade Pokoyev

COMRADE KOTOVSKY

SPEECH DELIVERED IN THE FRENCH COMMISSION OF THE SIXTH ENLARGED PLENUM OF THE E.C.C.I., March 6, 1926

INTERNATIONAL COMMUNIST WOMEN’S DAY

SPEECH DELIVERED IN THE GERMAN COMMISSION OF THE SIXTH ENLARGED PLENUM OF THE E.C.C.I., March 8, 1926

THE ECONOMIC SITUATION OF THE SOVIET UNION AND THE FOREIGN POLICY OF THE PARTY. Report to the Active of the Leningrad Party Organisation on the Work of the Plenum of the C.C., C.P.S.U.(B), April 13, 1926

I. Two Periods of the N.E.P.

II. The Course Towards Industrialisation

III. Questions of Socialist Accumulation

IV. The Proper Use of Accumulation. The Regime of Economy

V. We Must Create Cadres of Builders of Industry

VI. We Must Raise the Activity of the Working Class

VII. We Must Strengthen the Alliance of the Workers and Peasants

VIII. We Must Put Inner-Party Democracy into Effect

IX. We Must Protect the Unity of the Party

X. Conclusions

TO COMRADE KAGANOVICH AND THE OTHER MEMBERS OF THE POLITICAL BUREAU OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE, UKRAINIAN C.P.(B)

THE BRITISH STRIKE AND THE EVENTS IN POLAND. Report Delivered at a Meeting of the Workers of the Chief Railway Workshops in Tiflis, June 8, 1926

I . What Caused the Strike in Britain?

II. Why Did the British Strike Fail?

III. Lessons of the General Strike

IV . Some Conclusions

V . The Recent Events

REPLY TO THE GREETINGS OF THE WORKERS OF THE CHIEF RAILWAY WORKERSHOPS IN TIFLIS, June 8, 1926

THE ANGLO-RUSSIAN UNITY COMMITTEE, Speech Delivered at a Joint Plenum of the Central Committee and the Central Control Commission, C.P.S.U.(B), July 15, 1926

F. DZERZHINSKY (In Memory of F. Dzerzhinsky)

THE ANGLO-RUSSIAN UNITY COMMITTEE, Speech Delivered at a Meeting of the Presidium of the E.C.C.I., August 7, 1926

TO THE EDITORIAL BOARD OF THE DAILY WORKER. CENTRAL ORGAN OF THE WORKERS PARTY OF AMERICA

LETTER TO SLEPKOV

MEASURES FOR MITIGATING THE INNER-PARTY STRUGGLE. Speech Delivered at a Meeting of the Political Bureau of the C.C., C.P.S.U.(B), October 11, 1926

THE OPPOSITION BLOC IN THE C.P.S.U.(B). Theses for the Fifteenth All-Union Conference of the C.P.S.U.(B), Adopted by the Conference and Endorsed by the C.C., C.P.S.U.(B)

I. The Passing over of the “New Opposition” to Trotskyism on the Basic Question of the Character and Prospects of Our Revolution

II. The Practical Platform of the Opposition Bloc

III. The “Revolutionary” Words and Opportunist Deeds of the Opposition Bloc

IV. Conclusions

THE SOCIAL-DEMOCRATIC DEVIATION IN OUR PARTY. Report Delivered at the Fifteenth All-Union Conference of the C.P.S.U.(B), November 1, 1926

I. The Stages of Development of the Opposition Bloc
          1. The First Stage
          2. The Second Stage
          3. The Third Stage
          4. The Fourth Stage
          5. Lenin and the Question of Blocs in the Party
          6. The Process of Decomposition of the Opposition Bloc
          7. What is the Opposition Bloc Counting On?

II. The Principal Error of the Opposition Bloc
          1. Preliminary Remarks
          2. Leninism or Trotskyism?
          3. The Resolution of the Fourteenth Conference of the R.C.P.(B)
          4. The Passing over of the “New Opposition” to Trotskyism
          5. Trotsky’s Evasion. Smilga. Radek
          6. The Decisive Importance of the Question of the Prospects of Our Constructive Work
          7. The Political Prospects of the Opposition Bloc

III. The Political and Organisational Errors of the Opposition Bloc

IV. Some Conclusions

REPLY TO THE DISCUSSION ON THE REPORT ON “THE SOCIAL DEMOCRATIC DEVIATION IN OUR PARTY,” November 3, 1926

I. Some General Questions
          1. Marxism is Not Dogma, but a Guide to Action
          2. Some Remarks of Lenin on the Dictatorship of the Proletariat
          3. The Unevenness of Devoplment of the Capitalist Countries

II. Kamenev Clears the Way for Trotsky

III. An Incredible Muddle, or Zinoviev on Revolutionary Spirit and Internationalism

IV. Trotsky Falsifies Leninism
          1. Trotsky’s Conjuring Tricks, or the Question of “Permanent Revolution”
          2. Juggling with Quotations, or Trotsky Falsifies Leninism
          3. “Trifles” and Curiosities

V. The Practical Platform of the Opposition. The Demands of the Party

VI. Conclusion

THE PROSPECTS OF THE REVOLUTION IN CHINA. Speech Delivered in the Chinese Commission of the E.C.C.I., November 30, 1926

I. Character of the Revolution in China

II. Imperialism and Imperialist Intervention in China

III. The Revolutionary Army in China

IV. Character of the Future Government in China

V. The Peasant Question in China

VI. The Proletariat and the Hegemony of the Proletariat in China

VII. The Question of the Youth in China

VIII. Some Conclusions

Biographical Chronicle (January-November 1926)