Comparison Of The Russian Communist Party

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Next, the comparison of the two parties’ organization is made. The Russian Communist Party was made up of many different organizational groups, including the Congress, the Central Committee, the Conference, and finally the Central Auditing Commission. The Congress was a party-wide gathering that convened every five years (This started with the Russian Social Democratic Party, remember that the party split during the Second Conference) in order to make major decisions for the party. This lasted up to the point where Iosif Stalin took power over the party in 1929. The next organizational structure of this party was the Central Committee. It consisted of delegates elected by the congress and was purposed to act as the highest governing body of …show more content…

This shows that the party members were willing to follow this code. If the party members were against any kind of restrictions, then they would not have split in the first place. Moving on, the CAD (Central Auditing Commission) was effectively a police force that kept check on the party. In one of his works, Lenin as the organizer and leader of the Russian Communist Party, Iosif Stalin wrote about the party’s organization, “But it will be easily understood that our Party could not have rid itself of internal weakness and diffuseness, that it could not have attained its characteristic vigor and strength if it had not expelled the non-proletarian, opportunist elements from its midst” (Stalin Section 1, Paragraph 7). As much as it may have failed, the Central Auditing Commission was created with Mr. Locke’s Treatise in mind. The organizers of this party created the Central Auditing Commission to pursue a more proper and just government for all under the Communist Russian …show more content…

Stalin took control over the regime. His first major job in the party was General Secretary, which he was appointed to in the year 1922. After Lenin’s death in 1924, with some struggle Iosif became the leader of the Communist Party. As leader, he made some organizational changes to the powers within the different branches of the country. Firstly, the Congress became more of a formality under his reign. Stalin effectively made himself a dictator, and because of this, the Congress had no ability to lead on its own. Stalin allowed it to stay, however, and that is what transferred it into the realm of symbolism. After its loss of power, the Congress was mainly used to communicate information to many people within the party. The Central Committee went through the same loss of power that the Congress had as well. Interestingly enough, Stalin did not modify the Statute in his rise to