24. The Article ‘A Congress is Necessary’, Published in the Journal Kommunist, June 1918

This chapter discusses the Article "A Congress is Necessary", Published in the Journal Kommunist . The lively debates at the recently-concluded Urals Regional Conference of Communist Party- which was distinguished by a large multitude of people - involved a discussion of the general policies of our Soviet centres and of economic policy in particular, which is the same thing as the policies of the Central Committee of the Party. The article presents the resolution that was accepted by everyone at the Conference with nine abstentions. It discusses one of them concerning the demand for the prompt convocation of a broad party-congress. In his polemical feuilletons directed against the position of the Left- Communists - which contain some very grand discoveries or, to put it more precisely, inventions about state-capitalism in Soviet Russia - comrade Lenin refers to the publishers of Kommunist as a tiny group. Keywords:A Congress is Necessary; Communist Party; Comrade Lenin; Kommunist ; Soviet Russia; Urals Regional Conference