Bolshevization
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Bolshevization refers first to the process by which the Bolsheviks won majorities in the soviets during 1917, and later to the campaign adopted at the Fifth Comintern Congress in 1924 to reshape all communist parties on the Bolshevik organizational model. The Bolshevization of the soviets in 1917 saw the party gain up to 90% of seats in the Petrograd Soviet after the Kornilov affair, providing the institutional platform for the October Revolution. The Comintern Bolshevization from 1924 imposed strict democratic centralism, banned internal factions, and institutionalized the subordination of national parties to Moscow, becoming a vehicle for Stalinization.
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- Wikipedia (EN) The Bolshevization of the soviets was the process of winning a majority in the soviets by the RSDLP(b) in the second half of 1917, especially after the Kornilov Rebellion, with the Bolsheviks gaining up to 90% of seats in the Petrograd Soviet and 60% in Moscow by October 1917.
- Wikipedia (EN) Bolshevization of the Communist International, adopted at the 5th World Congress in 1924, imposed stricter bureaucratic centralism on member parties, flattened earlier diversity of radicalisms into a single approved model, and transmuted respect for Bolshevik achievements into dependency on Moscow.
- johnriddell.com Joel Geier's study of the Fifth Comintern Congress details Zinoviev's Bolshevization campaign, the attack on the 'right danger,' the redefinition of united front policy, and the congress's role as a bridge from Lenin-era pluralism to Stalinist subordination.
- Wikipedia (RU) Большевизация Советов — процесс завоевания РСДРП(б) большинства в Советах во второй половине 1917 года. Процесс протекал особенно активно после Корниловского мятежа. К началу ноября 1917 года большевики занимают до 90% мест в Петроградском Совете, до 60% в Московском.