Workers' Truth Рабочая Правда | |
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| Founded | September 1921 |
| Dissolved | December 1923 |
| Split from | Communist Party of the Soviet Union |
| Preceded by | Proletkult |
| Newspaper | Workers' Truth |
| Ideology | Left communism |
| Political position | Far-left |
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The Workers' Truth (Russian: Рабочая Правда, romanized: Rabochaya Pravda) was a Russian socialist opposition group founded in 1921.[1] They published a newspaper with the same name, Workers' Truth, which first appeared in September 1921.[2]
The Workers' Truth considered that the Soviet economy had been transformed into a form of capitalism, with the technical managers and organizers as a new ruling class, together with the private entrepreneurs that emerged with the New Economic Policy (NEP), the Communist Party having become the representative of that ruling class, and no longer of the proletariat. Thus, the Workers' Truth, although continuing to act within the Communist Party, defended the need to create a new workers' party.
Its main activists were arrested in September 1923—the group's activity being largely suppressed thereafter—and expelled from the Communist Party in December of the same year.
- ^ Twiss, Thomas M. (2014). Trotsky and the Problem of Soviet Bureaucracy. Historical Materialism Book Series. Vol. 67. Brill. p. 103. ISBN 978-90-04-26953-8. ISSN 1570-1522.
- ^ Carr, Edward Hallett (1969). A History of Soviet Russia: The interregnum, 1923-1924. Penguin Books. p. 89.