Besides the
resolutions described in prior entries, the conference considered reports and
resolutions on the party’s attitude toward the provincial soviets, revisions to
its program, the agrarian and nationalities questions, and the current
situation of the international proletarian revolution. Stalin delivered the
report on the nationalities question. The tsars had made Russia the overlord of
numerous peoples; Stalin was becoming the party’s expert on the issues this
raised.
The party’s
agrarian policy sought to align the peasants in the countryside with the
workers in the cities under the Bolshevik banners. It called for confiscation
of the landed estates of the nobility, church, and crown, nationalization of
the lands, and transfer of the lands to the peasantry under leasehold. The
party also undertook to organize the peasants in an independent arm, and
support their efforts in existing peasant soviets and land committees.
A new Central
Committee was also elected; Lenin, Kamenev, Zinoviev, Stalin, and Sverdlov were
among those given seats.
After the April
Days, the votes in elections to the soviets begin to shift, favorably to the
Bolsheviks.
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