J. V. Stalin

THE SEVENTH ENLARGED PLENUM
OF THE E.C.C.I.

November 22-December 16, 1926


Pravda, Nos. 285, 286. 294, 295 and 296,
December 9. 10, 19, 21 and 22, 1926



From J. V. Stalin, On the Opposition,
Foreign Languages Press, Peking, 1974

pp. 517-656.


Based on J. V. Stalin, Works,
Foreign Languages Publishing House,
Moscow, 1954

Vol. 9, pp. 1-155.


Prepared ©; for the Internet by David J. Romagnolo, djr@marx2mao.org (November 2000)

The articles and speeches by J. V. Stalin contained in English edition of On the Opposition follow the order of the Russian edition put out by the State Publishing House of the Soviet Union in 1928. The English translation, including the notes at the end of the book, is taken from Stalin's Works, Vols. 5-10, Foreign Languages Publishing House, Moscow, 1953-54, with some technical changes.

    References in Roman numerals to Lenin's Works mentioned in the text are to the third Russian edition. The English references are indicated by the publisher in footnotes.




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

NOTES




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