J. V. Stalin

ON THE OPPOSITION

(1921-27)

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C O N T E N T S
(Abbreviated)

OUR DISAGREEMENTS (more)

1

THE PARTY'S TASKS. Report Delivered at an Enlarged Meeting of
the Krasnaya Presnya District Committee of the R.C.P.(B.), with
Group Organisers, Members of the Debating Society and of the
Bureau of the Party Units, December 2, 1923 (more)

12

THE DISCUSSION, RAFAIL, THE ARTICLES BY PREOBRAZHENSKY AND
SAPRONOV, AND TROTSKY'S LETTER (more)

28

A NECESSARY COMMENT (Concerning Rafail)

45

THE THIRTEENTH CONFERENCE OF THE R.C.P.(B.), January 16-18,
1924 (more)

49

THIRTEENTH CONGRESS OF THE R.C.P.(B.), May 23-31, 1924 (more)

88

THE RESULTS OF THE THIRTEENTH CONGRESS OF THE R.C.P.(B.).,
Excerpts from the Report Delivered at the C.C., R.C.P.(B.)
Courses for Secretaries of Vyezd Party Committees, June 17,
1924

102

TROTSKYISM OR LENINISM? Speech Delivered at the Plenum of
the Communist Group in the A.U.C.C.T.U., November 19, 1924
(more)

105

THE OCTOBER REVOLUTION AND THE TACTICS OF THE RUSSIAN
COMMUNISTS. Preface to the Book "On the Road to October"
[Transcriber's Note: See Problems of Leninism. -- DJR]

139

SPEECH DELIVERED AT A PLENUM OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE AND
THE CENTRAL CONTROL COMMISSION OF THE R.C.P.(B.),
January 17, 1925

183

THE RESULTS OF THE WORK OF THE FOURTEENTH CONFERENCE OF
THE R.C.P.(B.). Report Delivered at a Meeting of the Activists
of the Moscow Organization of the R.C.P.(B.), May 9, 1925 (more)

188

THE FOURTEENTH CONGRESS OF THE C.P.S.U.(B.), December 18-31,
1925 (more)

230

CONCERNING QUESTIONS OF LENINISM
[Transcriber's Note: See Problems of Leninism. -- DJR]

268

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

347

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 Confer-
ence and Endorsed by the C.C., C.P.S.U.(B.), July 15, 1926 (more)

363

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

382

REPLY TO THE DISCUSSION ON THE REPORT ON "THE SOCIAL-DEMO-
CRATIC DEVIATION IN OUR PARTY," November 3, 1926 (more)

442

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

499

THE SEVENTH ENLARGED PLENUM OF THE E.C.C.I., November 22 -
December 16, 1926 (more)

517

QUESTIONS OF THE CHINESE REVOLUTION. Theses for Propagand-
ists, Approved by the C.C., C.P.S.U.(B.) (more)

657

TALK WITH STUDENTS OF THE SUN YAT-SEN UNIVERSITY, May 13,
1927

667

THE REVOLUTION IN CHINA AND THE TASKS OF THE COMINTERN.
Speech Delivered at the Tenth Sitting, Eighth Plenum of the
E.C.C.I., May 24, 1927 (more)

696

NOTES ON CONTEMPORARY THEMES (more)

726

JOINT PLENUM OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE AND THE CENTRAL
CONTROL COMMISSION OF THE C.P.S.U.(B.), July 29-August 9,
1927 (more)

765

THE POLITICAL COMPLEXION OF THE RUSSIAN OPPOSITION.
Excerpts from a Speech Delivered at a Joint Meeting of the
Presidium of the Executive Committee of the Comintern and
the International Control Commission, September 27, 1927

850

THE TROTSKYIST OPPOSITION BEFORE AND NOW. Speech Delivered
at a Meeting of the Joint Plenum of the Central Committee and
the Central Control Commission of the C.P.S.U.(B.), October 23,
1927 (more)

864

From Marx
to Mao

Reading
Guide

Stalin
Collection

Complete Table
of Contents Below

J. V. Stalin

ON THE OPPOSITION

(1921-27)

Table of Contents
(Complete)

OUR DISAGREEMENTS

1

I.
II.

Two Methods of Approach to the Mass of the Workers
Conscious Democracy and Forced "Democracy"

2
4

THE PARTY'S TASKS. Report Delivered at an Enlarged Meeting of
the Krasnaya Presnya District Committee of the R.C.P.(B.), with
Group Organisers, Members of the Debating Society and of the
Bureau of the Party Units, December 2, 1923

12

  Discussion -- a Sign of the Party's Strength
  Causes of the Discussion
  Defects in Internal Party Life
  The Causes of the Defects
  How Should the Defects in Internal Party Life Be Removed?

13
14
15
17
20

THE DISCUSSION, RAFAIL, THE ARTICLES BY PREOBRAZHENSKY AND
SAPRONOV, AND TROTSKY'S LETTER

28

  The Discussion
  Rafail
  Preobrazhensky's Article
  Sapronov's Article
  Trotsky's Letter

28
31
35
37
40

A NECESSARY COMMENT (Concerning Rafail)

45

THE THIRTEENTH CONFERENCE OF THE R.C.P.(B.), January 16-18,
1924

49

I.
II.

Report on Immediate Tasks in Party Affairs, January 17
Reply to the Discussion, January 18

49
69

THIRTEENTH CONGRESS OF THE R.C.P.(B.), May 23-31, 1924

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duces only the second part of the complete text (roughly a third of the entire document). The following listing of its contents is for the complete document.
Since I have reproduced the entire text directly from Stalin's Works, all page references have omitted here. -- DJR]

Organisational Report of the Central Committee, May 24

1.
2.
3.
4.

5.
6.

7.
8.

The Mass Organisations That Link the Party With the Class
The State Apparatus
The Composition of the Party. The Lenin Enrolment
The Composition of the Leading Party Bodies. Cadres and the Younger
Party Element
The Work of the Party in the Sphere of Agitation and Propaganda
The Work of the Party in the Registration, Allocation and Promotion
of Forces
Inner-Party Life
Conclusions

[Transcriber's Note: The following is that part of the text reproduced in On the Opposition -- DJR]

Reply to the Discussion, May 27

THE RESULTS OF THE THIRTEENTH CONGRESS OF THE R.C.P.(B.).,
Excerpts from the Report Delivered at the C.C., R.C.P.(B.)
Courses for Secretaries of Vyezd Party Committees, June 17,
1924

102

[Transcriber's Note: The "excerpts" alluded to here amount to fewer than three pages out a total of twenty-eight comprising the entire document. The following listing of contents is for the complete document, which I have reproduced in its entirety from Stalin's Works, omitting the page references. -- DJR]

Foreign Affairs
Questions of the Bond Between Town and Country
Questions of the Education and Re-education of the Working
  Masses
The Party
The Tasks of Party Workers in the Uyezds

TROTSKYISM OR LENINISM? Speech Delivered at the Plenum of
the Communist Group in the A.U.C.C.T.U., November 19, 1924

105

I.
II.
III.

The Facts About the October Uprising
The Party and the Preparation for October
Trotskyism or Leninism?

105
112
128

THE OCTOBER REVOLUTION AND THE TACTICS OF THE RUSSIAN
COMMUNISTS. Preface to the Book "On the Road to October"
[Transcriber's Note: See Problems of Leninism. -- DJR]

139

SPEECH DELIVERED AT A PLENUM OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE AND
THE CENTRAL CONTROL COMMISSION OF THE R.C.P.(B.),
January 17, 1925

183

THE RESULTS OF THE WORK OF THE FOURTEENTH CONFERENCE OF
THE R.C.P.(B.). Report Delivered at a Meeting of the Activists
of the Moscow Organization of the R.C.P.(B.), May 9, 1925

188

I.
II.

III.

IV.
V.
VI.

The International Situation
The Immediate Tasks of the Communist Parties in the Capitalist Countries
The Immediate Tasks of the Communist Elements in the Colonial and Dependent Countries
The Fate of Socialism in the Soviet Union
The Party's Policy in the Countryside
The Metal Industry

189

199

204
206
218
225

THE FOURTEENTH CONGRESS OF THE C.P.S.U.(B.), December 18-31,
1925

230

[Transcriber's Note: This document, as it appears in On the Opposition, repro-
duces only the second part of the complete text (roughly a third of the entire document). The following listing of its contents is for the complete document.
Since I have reproduced the entire text directly from Stalin's Works, all page references have omitted here. -- DJR]

Political Report of the Central Committee, December 18

I.

The International Situation

1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.

The Stabilisation of Capitalism
Imperialism, the Colonies and Semi-Colonies
Victors and Vanquished
The Contradictions between the Victor Countries
The Capitalist World and the Soviet Union
The External Position of the U.S.S.R.
The Party's Tasks

II.

The Internal Situation in the Soviet Union

1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.

The National Economy as a Whole
Industry and Agriculture
Questions Concerning Trade
Classes, Their Activity, Their Correlation
Lenin's Three Slogans on the Peasant Question
Two Dangers and Two Deviations in Regard to the Peasant Question
The Party's Tasks

III.

The Party

[Transcriber's Note: The following is a listing for that part of the text reproduced in On the Opposition -- DJR]

Reply to the Discussion on the Political Report of the Central
  Committee, December 23

1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
11.
12.

Sokolnikov and the Dawesation of Our Country
Kamenev and Our Concessions
Whose Miscalculations?
How Sokolnikov Protects the Poor Peasants
Ideological Struggle or Slander?
Concerning NEP
Concerning State Capitalism
Zinoviev and the Peasantry
Concerning the History of the Disagreements
The Opposition's Platform
Their "Desire for Peace"
The Party Will Acheive Unity

CONCERNING QUESTIONS OF LENINISM
[Transcriber's Note: See Problems of Leninism. -- DJR]

268

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

347

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 Confer-
ence and Endorsed by the C.C., C.P.S.U.(B.), July 15, 1926

363

I.

II.
III.

IV.

The Passing Over of the "New Opposition" to Trotskyism on
the Basic Question of the Character and Prospects of Our
Revolution
The Practical Platform of the Opposition Bloc
The "Revolutionary" Words and Opportunist Deeds of the
Opposition Bloc
Conclusions

365
370

376
380

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

382

I.

The Stages of Development of the Opposition Bloc

382

1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.

The First Stage
The Second Stage
The Third Stage
The Fourth Stage
Lenin and the Question of Bloc in the Party
The Process of Decomposition of the Opposition Bloc
What is the Opposition Bloc Counting on?

383
384
386
387
388
390
392

II.

The Principal Error of the Opposition Bloc

394

1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.

7.

Preliminary Remarks
Leninism or Trotskyism?
The Resolution of the Fourteenth Conference of the R.C.P.(B.)
The Passing Over of the "New Opposition" to Trotskyism
Trotsky's Evasion
The Decisive Importance of the Question of the Prospects of Our
Constructive Work
The Political Prospects of the Opposition Bloc

395
399
412
415
420

424
427

III.

The Political and Organisational Errors of the Opposition
Bloc

431

IV.

Some Conclusions

437

REPLY TO THE DISCUSSION ON THE REPORT ON "THE SOCIAL-DEMO-
CRATIC DEVIATION IN OUR PARTY," November 3, 1926

442

I.

Some General Questions

442

1.
2.
3.

Marxism Is Not a Dogma, but a Guide to Action
Some Remarks of Lenin on the Dictatorship of the Proletariat
The Unevenness of Development of the Capitalist Countries

442
451
456

II.

Kamenev Clears the Way for Trotsky

460

III.

An Incredible Muddle, or Zinoviev on Revolutionary Spirit
and Internationalism

468

IV.

Trotsky Falsifies Leninism

476

1.
2.
3.

Trotsky's Conjuring Tricks, or the Question of "Permanent Revolution"
Juggling with Quotations, or Trotsky Falsifies Leninism
"Trifles" and Curiosities

476
484
490

V.

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

493

VI.

Conclusion

496

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

499

I.
II.
III.
IV.
V.
VI.

VII.
VIII.

Character of the Revolution in China
Imperialism and Imperialist Intervention in China
The Revolutionary Army in China
Character of the Future Government in China
The Peasant Question in China
The Proletariat and the Hegemony of the Proletariat in
China
The Question of the Youth in China
Some Conclusions

500
501
504
506
509

513
514
515

THE SEVENTH ENLARGED PLENUM OF THE E.C.C.I., November 22 -
December 16, 1926

517

Once More on the Social-Democratic Deviation in Our Party.
  Report Delivered on December 7

517

I.

Preliminary Remarks

517

1.
2.

Contradictions of Inner-Party Development
Sources of Contradictions Within the Party

517
523

II.
III.

Specific Features of the Opposition in the C.P.S.U.(B.)
The Disagreements in the C.P.S.U.(B.)

526
533

1.
2.
3.

4.
5.

6.
7.
8.
9.

Questions of Socialist Construction
Factors of the "Respite"
The Unity and Inseparability of the National and International Tasks of
the Revolution
Concerning the History of the Question of Building Socialism
The Special Importance of the Question of Building Socialism in the U.S.S.R.
at the Present Moment
The Perspectives of the Revolution
How the Question Really Stands
The Chances of Victory
Disagreements Over Political Practice

534
538

540
542

548
551
553
555
557

IV.
V.
VI.
VII.

The Opposition at Work
Why the Enemies of the Dictatorship of the Proletariat Praise the Opposition
Defeat of the Opposition
The Practical Meaning and Importance of the Fifteenth Conference of the C.P.S.U.(B.)

560
564
568

571

Reply to the Discussion, December 13

573

I.

Preliminary Remarks

573

1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.

We Need Facts, Not Inventions and Tittle-Tattle
Why the Enemies of the Dictatorship of the Proletariat Praise the Opposition
There Are Errors and Errors
The Dictatorship of the Proletariat According Zinoviev
Trotsky's Oracular Sayings
Zinoviev in the Role of a Schoolboy Quoting Marx, Engels, Lenin
Revisionism According to Zinoviev

573
579
585
589
593
595
605

II.

The Question of the Victory of Socialism in Individual Capitalist Countries

609

1.

2.

The Prerequisites for Proletarian Revolutions in Individual Countries in the
Period of Imperialism
How Zinoviev "Elaborates" Lenin

609
619

III.

The Question of Building Socialism in the U.S.S.R.

624

1.

2.

3.
4.

The "Manoeuvres" of the Opposition and the "National-Reformism" of Lenin's
Party
We Are Building and Can Completely Build the Economic Basis of Socialism in
the U.S.S.R.
We Are Building Socialism in Alliance with the World Proletariat
The Question of Degeneration

624

634
645
648

IV.
V.

The Opposition and the Question of Party Unity
Conclusion

650
654

QUESTIONS OF THE CHINESE REVOLUTION. Theses for Propagand-
ists, Approved by the C.C., C.P.S.U.(B.)

657

I.
II.
III.
IV.

Prospects of the Chinese Revolution
The First Stage of the Chinese Revolution
The Second Stage of the Chinese Revolution
Errors of the Opposition

657
659
662
664

TALK WITH STUDENTS OF THE SUN YAT-SEN UNIVERSITY, May 13,
1927

667

THE REVOLUTION IN CHINA AND THE TASKS OF THE COMINTERN.
Speech Delivered at the Tenth Sitting, Eighth Plenum of the
E.C.C.I., May 24, 1927

696

I.
II.

III.

IV.
V.

Some Minor Questions
The Agrarian-Peasant Revolution as the Basis of the Bour-
geois-Democratic Revolution
The Right Kuomintang in Nanking, Which Massacres Commun-
ists, and the Left Kuomintang in Wuhan, Which Maintains an
Alliance with the Communists
Soviets of Workers' and Peasants' Deputies in China
Two Lines

696

699

707
710
720

NOTES ON CONTEMPORARY THEMES

726

I.
II.

The Threat of War
China

726
734

JOINT PLENUM OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE AND THE CENTRAL
CONTROL COMMISSION OF THE C.P.S.U.(B.), July 29-August 9,
1927

765

  The International Situation and the Defense of the U.S.S.R.
    Speech Delivered on August 1

765

I.
II.
III.
IV.

The Attacks of the Opposition on Sections of the Comintern
About China
The Anglo-Soviet Unity Committee
The Threat of War and the Defence of the U.S.S.R.

765
772
797
802

  Speech Delivered on August 5
  With Reference to the Opposition's "Declaration" of August 8,
    1927. Speech Delivered on August 9

819

843

THE POLITICAL COMPLEXION OF THE RUSSIAN OPPOSITION.
Excerpts from a Speech Delivered at a Joint Meeting of the
Presidium of the Executive Committee of the Comintern and
the International Control Commission, September 27, 1927

850

THE TROTSKYIST OPPOSITION BEFORE AND NOW. Speech Delivered
at a Meeting of the Joint Plenum of the Central Committee and
the Central Control Commission of the C.P.S.U.(B.), October 23,
1927

864

I.
II.
III.
IV.
V.
VI.
VII.

VIII.

Some Minor Questions
The Opposition's "Platform"
Lenin on Discussions and Oppositions in General
The Opposition and the "Third Force"
How the Opposition Is "Preparing" for the Congress
From Leninism to Trotskyism
Some of the Most Important Results of the Party's Policy
During the Past Few Years
Back to Axelrod

864
869
874
875
880
884

887
892

NOTES

943

From Marx
to Mao

Stalin
Collection

Reading
Guide

Problems
of Leninism

OUR DISAGREEMENTS (more)			1
THE PARTY'S TASKS. Report Delivered at an Enlarged Meeting of the Krasnaya Presnya District Committee of the R.C.P.(B.), with Group Organisers, Members of the Debating Society and of the Bureau of the Party Units, December 2, 1923 (more)			12
THE DISCUSSION, RAFAIL, THE ARTICLES BY PREOBRAZHENSKY AND SAPRONOV, AND TROTSKY'S LETTER (more)			28
A NECESSARY COMMENT (Concerning Rafail)			45
THE THIRTEENTH CONFERENCE OF THE R.C.P.(B.), January 16-18, 1924 (more)			49
THIRTEENTH CONGRESS OF THE R.C.P.(B.), May 23-31, 1924 (more)			88
THE RESULTS OF THE THIRTEENTH CONGRESS OF THE R.C.P.(B.)., Excerpts from the Report Delivered at the C.C., R.C.P.(B.) Courses for Secretaries of Vyezd Party Committees, June 17, 1924			102
TROTSKYISM OR LENINISM? Speech Delivered at the Plenum of the Communist Group in the A.U.C.C.T.U., November 19, 1924 (more)			105
THE OCTOBER REVOLUTION AND THE TACTICS OF THE RUSSIAN COMMUNISTS. Preface to the Book "On the Road to October" [Transcriber's Note: See Problems of Leninism. -- DJR]			139
SPEECH DELIVERED AT A PLENUM OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE AND THE CENTRAL CONTROL COMMISSION OF THE R.C.P.(B.), January 17, 1925			183
THE RESULTS OF THE WORK OF THE FOURTEENTH CONFERENCE OF THE R.C.P.(B.). Report Delivered at a Meeting of the Activists of the Moscow Organization of the R.C.P.(B.), May 9, 1925 (more)			188
THE FOURTEENTH CONGRESS OF THE C.P.S.U.(B.), December 18-31, 1925 (more)			230
CONCERNING QUESTIONS OF LENINISM [Transcriber's Note: See Problems of Leninism. -- DJR]			268
THE ANGLO-RUSSIAN UNITY COMMITTEE. Speech Delivered at a Joint Plenum of the Central Committee and the Central Control Commission of the C.P.S.U.(B.), July 15, 1926			347
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 Confer- ence and Endorsed by the C.C., C.P.S.U.(B.), July 15, 1926 (more)			363
THE SOCIAL-DEMOCRATIC DEVIATION IN OUR PARTY. Report Delivered at the Fiftheenth All-Union Conference of the C.P.S.U.(B.), November 1, 1926 (more)			382
REPLY TO THE DISCUSSION ON THE REPORT ON "THE SOCIAL-DEMO- CRATIC DEVIATION IN OUR PARTY," November 3, 1926 (more)			442
THE PROSPECTS OF THE REVOLUTION IN CHINA. Speech Delivered in the Chinese Commission of the E.C.C.I., November 30, 1926 (more)			499
THE SEVENTH ENLARGED PLENUM OF THE E.C.C.I., November 22 - December 16, 1926 (more)			517
QUESTIONS OF THE CHINESE REVOLUTION. Theses for Propagand- ists, Approved by the C.C., C.P.S.U.(B.) (more)			657
TALK WITH STUDENTS OF THE SUN YAT-SEN UNIVERSITY, May 13, 1927			667
THE REVOLUTION IN CHINA AND THE TASKS OF THE COMINTERN. Speech Delivered at the Tenth Sitting, Eighth Plenum of the E.C.C.I., May 24, 1927 (more)			696
NOTES ON CONTEMPORARY THEMES (more)			726
JOINT PLENUM OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE AND THE CENTRAL CONTROL COMMISSION OF THE C.P.S.U.(B.), July 29-August 9, 1927 (more)			765
THE POLITICAL COMPLEXION OF THE RUSSIAN OPPOSITION. Excerpts from a Speech Delivered at a Joint Meeting of the Presidium of the Executive Committee of the Comintern and the International Control Commission, September 27, 1927			850
THE TROTSKYIST OPPOSITION BEFORE AND NOW. Speech Delivered at a Meeting of the Joint Plenum of the Central Committee and the Central Control Commission of the C.P.S.U.(B.), October 23, 1927 (more)			864

OUR DISAGREEMENTS			1
I. II.	Two Methods of Approach to the Mass of the Workers Conscious Democracy and Forced "Democracy"		2 4
THE PARTY'S TASKS. Report Delivered at an Enlarged Meeting of the Krasnaya Presnya District Committee of the R.C.P.(B.), with Group Organisers, Members of the Debating Society and of the Bureau of the Party Units, December 2, 1923			12
Discussion -- a Sign of the Party's Strength Causes of the Discussion Defects in Internal Party Life The Causes of the Defects How Should the Defects in Internal Party Life Be Removed?			13 14 15 17 20
THE DISCUSSION, RAFAIL, THE ARTICLES BY PREOBRAZHENSKY AND SAPRONOV, AND TROTSKY'S LETTER			28
The Discussion Rafail Preobrazhensky's Article Sapronov's Article Trotsky's Letter			28 31 35 37 40
A NECESSARY COMMENT (Concerning Rafail)			45
THE THIRTEENTH CONFERENCE OF THE R.C.P.(B.), January 16-18, 1924			49
I. II.	Report on Immediate Tasks in Party Affairs, January 17 Reply to the Discussion, January 18		49 69
THIRTEENTH CONGRESS OF THE R.C.P.(B.), May 23-31, 1924
	[Transcriber's Note: This document, as it appears in On the Opposition, repro- duces *only* the second part of the complete text (roughly a third of the entire document). The following listing of its contents is for the complete document. Since I have reproduced the entire text directly from Stalin's Works, all page references have omitted here. -- DJR]
	Organisational Report of the Central Committee, May 24
	1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8.	The Mass Organisations That Link the Party With the Class The State Apparatus The Composition of the Party. The Lenin Enrolment The Composition of the Leading Party Bodies. Cadres and the Younger Party Element The Work of the Party in the Sphere of Agitation and Propaganda The Work of the Party in the Registration, Allocation and Promotion of Forces Inner-Party Life Conclusions
	[Transcriber's Note: The following is that part of the text reproduced in On the Opposition -- DJR]
	Reply to the Discussion, May 27
THE RESULTS OF THE THIRTEENTH CONGRESS OF THE R.C.P.(B.)., Excerpts from the Report Delivered at the C.C., R.C.P.(B.) Courses for Secretaries of Vyezd Party Committees, June 17, 1924			102
	[Transcriber's Note: The "excerpts" alluded to here amount to fewer than three pages out a total of twenty-eight comprising the entire document. The following listing of contents is for the complete document, which I have reproduced in its entirety from Stalin's Works, omitting the page references. -- DJR]
	Foreign Affairs Questions of the Bond Between Town and Country Questions of the Education and Re-education of the Working Masses The Party The Tasks of Party Workers in the Uyezds
TROTSKYISM OR LENINISM? Speech Delivered at the Plenum of the Communist Group in the A.U.C.C.T.U., November 19, 1924			105
I. II. III.	The Facts About the October Uprising The Party and the Preparation for October Trotskyism or Leninism?		105 112 128
THE OCTOBER REVOLUTION AND THE TACTICS OF THE RUSSIAN COMMUNISTS. Preface to the Book "On the Road to October" [Transcriber's Note: See Problems of Leninism. -- DJR]			139
SPEECH DELIVERED AT A PLENUM OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE AND THE CENTRAL CONTROL COMMISSION OF THE R.C.P.(B.), January 17, 1925			183
THE RESULTS OF THE WORK OF THE FOURTEENTH CONFERENCE OF THE R.C.P.(B.). Report Delivered at a Meeting of the Activists of the Moscow Organization of the R.C.P.(B.), May 9, 1925			188
I. II. III. IV. V. VI.	The International Situation The Immediate Tasks of the Communist Parties in the Capitalist Countries The Immediate Tasks of the Communist Elements in the Colonial and Dependent Countries The Fate of Socialism in the Soviet Union The Party's Policy in the Countryside The Metal Industry		189 199 204 206 218 225
THE FOURTEENTH CONGRESS OF THE C.P.S.U.(B.), December 18-31, 1925			230
	[Transcriber's Note: This document, as it appears in On the Opposition, repro- duces *only* the second part of the complete text (roughly a third of the entire document). The following listing of its contents is for the complete document. Since I have reproduced the entire text directly from Stalin's Works, all page references have omitted here. -- DJR]
Political Report of the Central Committee, December 18
I.	The International Situation
	1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7.	The Stabilisation of Capitalism Imperialism, the Colonies and Semi-Colonies Victors and Vanquished The Contradictions between the Victor Countries The Capitalist World and the Soviet Union The External Position of the U.S.S.R. The Party's Tasks
II.	The Internal Situation in the Soviet Union
	1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7.	The National Economy as a Whole Industry and Agriculture Questions Concerning Trade Classes, Their Activity, Their Correlation Lenin's Three Slogans on the Peasant Question Two Dangers and Two Deviations in Regard to the Peasant Question The Party's Tasks
III.	The Party
	[Transcriber's Note: The following is a listing for that part of the text reproduced in On the Opposition -- DJR]
Reply to the Discussion on the Political Report of the Central Committee, December 23
	1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12.	Sokolnikov and the Dawesation of Our Country Kamenev and Our Concessions Whose Miscalculations? How Sokolnikov Protects the Poor Peasants Ideological Struggle or Slander? Concerning NEP Concerning State Capitalism Zinoviev and the Peasantry Concerning the History of the Disagreements The Opposition's Platform Their "Desire for Peace" The Party Will Acheive Unity
CONCERNING QUESTIONS OF LENINISM [Transcriber's Note: See Problems of Leninism. -- DJR]			268
THE ANGLO-RUSSIAN UNITY COMMITTEE. Speech Delivered at a Joint Plenum of the Central Committee and the Central Control Commission of the C.P.S.U.(B.), July 15, 1926			347
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 Confer- ence and Endorsed by the C.C., C.P.S.U.(B.), July 15, 1926			363
I. II. III. IV.	The Passing Over of the "New Opposition" to Trotskyism on the Basic Question of the Character and Prospects of Our Revolution The Practical Platform of the Opposition Bloc The "Revolutionary" Words and Opportunist Deeds of the Opposition Bloc Conclusions		365 370 376 380
THE SOCIAL-DEMOCRATIC DEVIATION IN OUR PARTY. Report Delivered at the Fiftheenth All-Union Conference of the C.P.S.U.(B.), November 1, 1926			382
I.	The Stages of Development of the Opposition Bloc		382
	1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7.	The First Stage The Second Stage The Third Stage The Fourth Stage Lenin and the Question of Bloc in the Party The Process of Decomposition of the Opposition Bloc What is the Opposition Bloc Counting on?	383 384 386 387 388 390 392
II.	The Principal Error of the Opposition Bloc		394
	1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7.	Preliminary Remarks Leninism or Trotskyism? The Resolution of the Fourteenth Conference of the R.C.P.(B.) The Passing Over of the "New Opposition" to Trotskyism Trotsky's Evasion The Decisive Importance of the Question of the Prospects of Our Constructive Work The Political Prospects of the Opposition Bloc	395 399 412 415 420 424 427
III.	The Political and Organisational Errors of the Opposition Bloc		431
IV.	Some Conclusions		437
REPLY TO THE DISCUSSION ON THE REPORT ON "THE SOCIAL-DEMO- CRATIC DEVIATION IN OUR PARTY," November 3, 1926			442
I.	Some General Questions		442
	1. 2. 3.	Marxism Is Not a Dogma, but a Guide to Action Some Remarks of Lenin on the Dictatorship of the Proletariat The Unevenness of Development of the Capitalist Countries	442 451 456
II.	Kamenev Clears the Way for Trotsky		460
III.	An Incredible Muddle, or Zinoviev on Revolutionary Spirit and Internationalism		468
IV.	Trotsky Falsifies Leninism		476
	1. 2. 3.	Trotsky's Conjuring Tricks, or the Question of "Permanent Revolution" Juggling with Quotations, or Trotsky Falsifies Leninism "Trifles" and Curiosities	476 484 490
V.	The Practical Platform of the Opposition. The Demands of the Party		493
VI.	Conclusion		496
THE PROSPECTS OF THE REVOLUTION IN CHINA. Speech Delivered in the Chinese Commission of the E.C.C.I., November 30, 1926			499
I. II. III. IV. V. VI. VII. VIII.	Character of the Revolution in China Imperialism and Imperialist Intervention in China The Revolutionary Army in China Character of the Future Government in China The Peasant Question in China The Proletariat and the Hegemony of the Proletariat in China The Question of the Youth in China Some Conclusions		500 501 504 506 509 513 514 515
THE SEVENTH ENLARGED PLENUM OF THE E.C.C.I., November 22 - December 16, 1926			517
Once More on the Social-Democratic Deviation in Our Party. Report Delivered on December 7			517
I.	Preliminary Remarks		517
	1. 2.	Contradictions of Inner-Party Development Sources of Contradictions Within the Party	517 523
II. III.	Specific Features of the Opposition in the C.P.S.U.(B.) The Disagreements in the C.P.S.U.(B.)		526 533
	1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9.	Questions of Socialist Construction Factors of the "Respite" The Unity and Inseparability of the National and International Tasks of the Revolution Concerning the History of the Question of Building Socialism The Special Importance of the Question of Building Socialism in the U.S.S.R. at the Present Moment The Perspectives of the Revolution How the Question Really Stands The Chances of Victory Disagreements Over Political Practice	534 538 540 542 548 551 553 555 557
IV. V. VI. VII.	The Opposition at Work Why the Enemies of the Dictatorship of the Proletariat Praise the Opposition Defeat of the Opposition The Practical Meaning and Importance of the Fifteenth Conference of the C.P.S.U.(B.)		560 564 568 571
Reply to the Discussion, December 13			573
I.	Preliminary Remarks		573
	1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7.	We Need Facts, Not Inventions and Tittle-Tattle Why the Enemies of the Dictatorship of the Proletariat Praise the Opposition There Are Errors and Errors The Dictatorship of the Proletariat According Zinoviev Trotsky's Oracular Sayings Zinoviev in the Role of a Schoolboy Quoting Marx, Engels, Lenin Revisionism According to Zinoviev	573 579 585 589 593 595 605
II.	The Question of the Victory of Socialism in Individual Capitalist Countries		609
	1. 2.	The Prerequisites for Proletarian Revolutions in Individual Countries in the Period of Imperialism How Zinoviev "Elaborates" Lenin	609 619
III.	The Question of Building Socialism in the U.S.S.R.		624
	1. 2. 3. 4.	The "Manoeuvres" of the Opposition and the "National-Reformism" of Lenin's Party We Are Building and Can Completely Build the Economic Basis of Socialism in the U.S.S.R. We Are Building Socialism in Alliance with the World Proletariat The Question of Degeneration	624 634 645 648
IV. V.	The Opposition and the Question of Party Unity Conclusion		650 654
QUESTIONS OF THE CHINESE REVOLUTION. Theses for Propagand- ists, Approved by the C.C., C.P.S.U.(B.)			657
I. II. III. IV.	Prospects of the Chinese Revolution The First Stage of the Chinese Revolution The Second Stage of the Chinese Revolution Errors of the Opposition		657 659 662 664
TALK WITH STUDENTS OF THE SUN YAT-SEN UNIVERSITY, May 13, 1927			667
THE REVOLUTION IN CHINA AND THE TASKS OF THE COMINTERN. Speech Delivered at the Tenth Sitting, Eighth Plenum of the E.C.C.I., May 24, 1927			696
I. II. III. IV. V.	Some Minor Questions The Agrarian-Peasant Revolution as the Basis of the Bour- geois-Democratic Revolution The Right Kuomintang in Nanking, Which Massacres Commun- ists, and the Left Kuomintang in Wuhan, Which Maintains an Alliance with the Communists Soviets of Workers' and Peasants' Deputies in China Two Lines		696 699 707 710 720
NOTES ON CONTEMPORARY THEMES			726
I. II.	The Threat of War China		726 734
JOINT PLENUM OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE AND THE CENTRAL CONTROL COMMISSION OF THE C.P.S.U.(B.), July 29-August 9, 1927			765
The International Situation and the Defense of the U.S.S.R. Speech Delivered on August 1			765
I. II. III. IV.	The Attacks of the Opposition on Sections of the Comintern About China The Anglo-Soviet Unity Committee The Threat of War and the Defence of the U.S.S.R.		765 772 797 802
Speech Delivered on August 5 With Reference to the Opposition's "Declaration" of August 8, 1927. Speech Delivered on August 9			819 843
THE POLITICAL COMPLEXION OF THE RUSSIAN OPPOSITION. Excerpts from a Speech Delivered at a Joint Meeting of the Presidium of the Executive Committee of the Comintern and the International Control Commission, September 27, 1927			850
THE TROTSKYIST OPPOSITION BEFORE AND NOW. Speech Delivered at a Meeting of the Joint Plenum of the Central Committee and the Central Control Commission of the C.P.S.U.(B.), October 23, 1927			864
I. II. III. IV. V. VI. VII. VIII.	Some Minor Questions The Opposition's "Platform" Lenin on Discussions and Oppositions in General The Opposition and the "Third Force" How the Opposition Is "Preparing" for the Congress From Leninism to Trotskyism Some of the Most Important Results of the Party's Policy During the Past Few Years Back to Axelrod		864 869 874 875 880 884 887 892
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ON THE OPPOSITION

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