Talk:Communist Party of the Soviet Union
From Academic Kids
Surely either
- the Communist Party of the Russian Federation is a new party, containing the largest fraction of the CPSU members who regretted the banning of the CPSU, or
- the ban on CPSU was later lifted.
The article Communist Party of the Soviet Union needs to say which! --Jerzy 12:29, 2004 Feb 15 (UTC)
For better undersanding what communist party was within the Soviet society IMO the section, sketched below, is needed. Does anyone dare to finish?
To be or not to be (Communist) =
Answers to this ethernal question split the history of the Soviet Union into three periods.
During the Russian Revolution and Russian Civil War the answer was simple, like black and white.
In during the Stalin's rule being a communist was sitting on the razor blade. On one hand you had power and perks, on the other hand, you were in the limelight of Kremlin's stars that shone bright over your potential road to Siberia.
In the post-Stalin's times, if you were not party member, you could not hold any position of authority. If you were not a Komsomol member, you could not study in the University. May be the word "communist" still sounded threatening for the West, in the Soviet Union itself it had degenerated to a synonym for nomenklatura.
Mikkalai 04:25, 12 Mar 2004 (UTC)
Bolsheviks banned other parties.
Your outline states that the Bolsheviks outlawed the Mensheviks and other political parties. When? I can find no Soviet law dating from the Lenin period which did any such thing.
Succession to Lenin
We need to develop the section on the struggle between Stalin and Trotksy (as well as Bukharin, Zinoviev and Kamenev) after the death of Lenin and how Stalin won. AndyL 00:40, 15 Apr 2004 (UTC)
- I'd say first of all we need to define the relatioship between the history of the CPSU and that of the USSR. Obviously, their overlap is huge, but probably there is a way to minimize duplications, which present difficulties for the consistency of the subsequent edits. Mikkalai 01:10, 15 Apr 2004 (UTC)
I think it's a matter of focussing on party organisation, internal party disputes and manouvers (particularly over succession), internal party regime, ideological shifts etc rather than on events such as WWII, foreign policy etc except where they have an effect on the party itself. Anyway, I've expanded the parts on the succession struggles of the 20s, and 50s as well as the deposing of Khrushchev. I've also created a section on membership. What else needs to be done. Does anyone have more knowledge on the Tenth Party Congress and internal party life and debate while Lenin was still alive?AndyL
