pre-Congress discussion
당대회 전 토론
A formal intra-party procedure in which party organizations debate and vote on major lines and platforms before a Party Congress. Before the Fifteenth Congress in 1927, it took place under restrictions on opposition publication, speech, and access to meetings, making the vote totals difficult to interpret as a straightforward measure of party opinion.
In depth
In the early practice of the Soviet Communist Party, the pre-Congress discussion referred to sending contested questions through party organizations so members could examine platforms and state their views. The ban on factions after the Tenth Congress in 1921, together with tighter control over publication and meetings, narrowed the procedure's practical conditions. In the discussion before the Fifteenth Congress in 1927, the Trotskyist-Zinovievist opposition platform received 0.5 percent of all party members in the official count, but that figure must be interpreted alongside the discussion's restricted access and competitive conditions.
Sources
- Wikipedia (RU) | 1927년 제15차 당대회 개최 시기, 토론 규칙 변경과 당내 반대파 처리 결과를 지원
- docs.historyrussia.org | 제15차 당대회 결의와 공식 문서 모음임을 지원
- booksite.ru | 당대회 전 토론에서 반대파 강령이 당원 투표의 0.5%를 얻었다는 당시 결과를 지원