Lenin Enrolment
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. The Lenin Enrolment (after Vladimir Lenin) was an effort from 1923 to 1925 to enroll more of the proletariat into the Communist party and incite them to become active in party affairs. This process began as a means of social cohesion, but the rules of admission were virtually abandoned and 128,000 people were signed up within the three months prior to the pivotal 13th party Congress. "Lenin's Enrolment" extended Stalin's personal power as the majority of the people who signed up were working-class and distrusted the educated Bukharin and Trotsky. Even more they were more interested in advancing their own careers than party ideology, so Stalin used this factor to promote them into positions of power. Consequently, they became Stalin's "yes-men" and would support him.[citation needed]
References
- EH Carr The interregnum Harmondsworth 1969, p361.
- Genesis of bureaucratic socialism
