party dictatorship 1921

• New Economic Policy (NEP) coincided with a shift towards dictatorship.10th Party Congress passed a general resolution 'On the Unity of the Party' which demanded 'the complete abolition of all fractionalism (outlawed soviet parties) inc in democratic centralism
• • he Decree had significant consequences after Lenin's death, as Stalin used it to suppress inner-party debate.
  • Individuals or groups offering alternative views were labeled traitors to Lenin.
  • Trotsky, who voted for the Decree, became its primary victim.
• actions Against Opposition Parties:

  • Menshevik Party Central Committee was arrested, along with approximately 2000 members (some later released, and leaders allowed to go abroad).
  • SR leaders were tried in 1922 for counter-revolutionary activities, resulting in death sentences or long-term imprisonment.