Declaration of 46

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The Declaration of 46 was a secret letter sent by 46 leading Soviet Communists to the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Russia on October 15, 1923 . It followed a letter from Leon Trotsky dated October 8 of the same year and is considered to be one of the first documents of the left opposition .

Like Trotsky's letter, this declaration also expressed protest against the current politics of the leadership around Josef Stalin and the state of affairs in the party and state. There is a close connection between the economic crisis and internal undesirable developments. "In the face of a party leadership distorted by such narrow-minded manipulations, the party ceases to be that lively collective, rich in initiative ..." At their meetings, the secretaries are already "afraid" that the "free discussion" is " in fact disappeared ".

Trotsky's signature is missing from the declaration, but apart from the great agreement in terms of time and content of the two texts, the declaration was also signed by Trotsky's closest collaborators, such as J. Preobrazhensky and G. Pyatakov . The signatories also included L. Serebrjakow , A. Beloborodow , W. Antonow-Ovsejenko , I. Smirnow , W. Obolensky , N. Muralow , L. Sosnowski , A. Bubnow , A. Voronsky , J. Bosch , J. Drobnis , W. Jakowlewa , as well as the supporters of the group Democratic Centralists T. Sapronow , Rafail B. Farbman , W. Smirnow and M. Boguslawski .

Most of those who signed the Declaration fell victim to the Great Terror in the late 1930s .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Leon Trotsky: Letters from 1923 to the Central Committee ( Memento of the original of December 26, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 363 kB), p. 5  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.internationalesozialisten.de
  2. ^ To the Politburo of the Central Committee of the RKP (Declaration of the Forty-Six). In: Frits Kool, Erwin Oberländer (Ed.): Documents of the World Revolution. Labor democracy or party dictatorship. Book Guild Gutenberg, Frankfurt am Main / Vienna / Zurich 1967, p. 275.

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German translations of the declaration:

  • To the Politburo of the Central Committee of the RKP (Declaration of Forty-Six). In: Frits Kool, Erwin Oberländer (Ed.): Documents of the World Revolution. Labor democracy or party dictatorship. Gutenberg Book Guild, Frankfurt am Main / Vienna / Zurich 1967, p. 273ff., Original in: Trotsky Archive, Harvard University, Document T 802a, listed online at: oasis.lib.harvard.edu
  • To the Politburo of the Central Committee of the RKP (Declaration of Forty-Six). In: Ulf Wolter (Ed.): The Left Opposition in the Soviet Union. Volume 1, Berlin (West) 1976, pp. 214f.

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