Syrtsov-Lominadze Affair
Left-Right Bloc | |
---|---|
Leader (left) | Vissarion Lominadze |
Leader (right) | Sergey Syrtsov |
Founded | July 1930 |
Dissolved | December 1930 |
Merger of | Rightists Leftists |
Preceded by | United Opposition |
Merged into | Bloc of Soviet Oppositions |
Ideology | Anti-collectivism |
National affiliation | Communist Party of the Soviet Union |
In the history of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union the Left-Right bloc (Russian: лево-правый блок, romanized: levo-pravyy blok) was a failed attempt of vocal opposition to the politics of forced collectivization Joseph Stalin. Vissarion Lominadze and Sergey Syrtsov were recognized as its leaders.[1] The name is derived from the accusation in factionism of the group created by joining of two groups: the one accused in "right opportunism" and allegedly headed by Syrtsov and another one accused of "leftism" and "half-Trotskyism" allegedly headed by Lominadze. In Western literature the case is known as the Syrtsov-Lominadze Affair.[2]
History
The issue was part on the agenda of the November 4, 1930 joint session of the Bureau of the
There are opinions that in fact there was no such bloc, that while the dissenting views were public indeed, the whole affair was fabricated. E.g., Roy Medvedev expressed an opinion that Stalin learned some details of a conversation between Syrtsov and Lominadze.[2] Pierre Broué wrote that Medvedev was wrong and there was indeed a bloc, because some of Trotsky's letters mentioned a real oppositional group between Lominadze, Jan Sten and Syrtsov.[5]
Some of its members later joined a conspiratorial bloc with Leon Trotsky and other anti-Stalin politicians in 1932.[5]
Footnotes
- ^ Vadim Rogovin, "Power and Oppositions" (" Власть и оппозиции")
- ^ JSTOR 151473
- ^ "О фракционной работе тт. Сырцова, Ломинадзе, Шацкина и др."
- ^ Paul R. Gregory and Norman Naimark (eds.), The Lost Politburo Transcripts: From Collective Rule to Stalin's Dictatorship. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2008; pg. 79.
- ^ a b "Pierre Broué: The "Bloc" of the Oppositions against Stalin (January 1980)". www.marxists.org. Retrieved 2020-08-07.