MINUTES OF THE CLOSED EVENING SESSION OF THE EIGHTH CONGRESS OF THE RCP(b)

March 21, 1919

§ 6 — "honor to be given"

Perm, its fall was concealed... (Yaroslavsky)

[  discipline... Middle peasantry  ]

§ 10 — who? ((Command))

§ 10, it1*. — "reserves"

II §6 second part - "syndicalism in the army"

II §10 — revised. How?

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[  "Basis: party hegemony in the army"  ] "Hegemony of the communist party" (Safarov)...

[  "So that commanders are connected with You, Comrade Lenin" — Safarov  ]

Voroshilov: Ukraine occupied without military specialists, against their advice, by insurgents (+ Pyatakov + Bubnov).

(The army managed without military specialists. 60,000 casualties)

Tsaritsyn.

Okulov dispersed, disorganized, "completely demoralized the army."

Goloshekin:

"The policy of the Central Committee is not being carried out by the Military Department" — "we do not reproach the Central Committee."  }

{  The gramophone — dead matter, that's the evil.

{  "That military specialists manage," that's what is terrible. They must be used.

Fund 2, op. 2, f. 148 — autograph.

1* The same.

1 V.I. Lenin took notes at the closed evening session of the Eighth Congress of the RCP(b) on March 21, 1919 (see: Izvestiya TsK KPSS, 1989, No. 11, pp. 144-176) based on the speeches of E.M. Yaroslavsky (cf.: ibid., p. 152), G.I. Safarov (cf.: ibid., p. 155), K.E. Voroshilov (cf.: ibid., p. 159, 161-162), F.I. Goloshekin (cf.: ibid., p. 165, 166).

The notes were used by Lenin in his speech at the same session (see: Lenin Collection XXXVII, pp. 135-140).

The Eighth Congress of the RCP(b) took place from March 18-23, 1919, in Moscow. The issues on the agenda were: 1) Report of the Central Committee; 2) Program of the RCP(b); 3) Formation of the Communist International; 4) Military situation and military policy; 5) Work in the countryside; 6) Organizational issues; 7) Election of the Central Committee. Resolutions and decisions of the congress can be found in: CPSU in Resolutions and Decisions of Congresses, Conferences, and Plenums of the CC. Vol. 2. Moscow, 1983, pp. 67-165.