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Seventh All-Russian Congress of Soviets of Workers’, Peasants’, Red Army, and Toiling Cossacks’ Deputies

held in Moscow from Dec. 5 to Dec. 9, 1919, and attended by 1,011 delegates with a casting vote (970 Communists, 35 nonparty delegates, three “revolutionary Communists,” one Borot’byst, one member of Poale Zion [Workers of Zion], and one anarchist-Communist) and 355 delegates with a consultative vote (308 Communists, 26 nonparty delegates, and 21 members of petit bourgeois parties that had voted to mobilize their members to fight on the Civil War fronts). The representatives of the petit bourgeois parties were admitted to the congress by a decision of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee on Nov. 27, 1919. Delegates from the Soviet Ukraine, the Turkestan Autonomous Republic, and the Bashkir Autonomous Republic took part in the congress.

The agenda included the report of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee and the Council of People’s Commissars, by V. I. Lenin; the Report on the Military Situation, by L. D. Trotsky; the Report on the Communist International, by G. E. Zinoviev; the Report on the Food Situation, by A. D. Tsiurupa; the Report on the Fuel Question, by A. I. Rykov; the Report on the Work of Soviet Bodies in the Center and in the Provinces, by L. B. Kamenev; and elections to the All-Russian Central Executive Committee.

In his report Lenin analyzed the international and domestic situation of the Soviet state, pointed out the great importance of the Red Army’s decisive victories on the Civil War fronts, and emphasized that problems of economic construction and government administration must be given the highest priority. The Seventh All-Russian Congress of Soviets approved the foreign and domestic policies of the Soviet government.

The work of Soviet bodies and the appropriate forms for relations between central and local structures of the Soviet government became the most important items on the agenda. The congress adopted the resolution On Soviet Organization, which provided for the further strengthening of the state apparatus, outlined the means for broadening Soviet democracy, and specified the functions of the central and local bodies of Soviet power.

Separate groups were established and assigned to hold detailed discussions of the questions of Soviet organization, the food situation, and the fuel situation. They drew up the resolutions On the Organization of Food Supplies in the RSFSR and On the Organization of Fuel Supplies in the RSFSR, which were approved by the congress.

The Seventh All-Russian Congress adopted a resolution proposed by Lenin, urging the Entente powers, the USA, Italy, and Japan to open peace negotiations with Soviet Russia. The congress also adopted the resolution On Oppressed Nations (natsii, nations in the historical sense), which affirmed the principles of the Soviet government’s nationalities policy and expressed solidarity with the peoples of the borderlands incorporated into tsarist Russia.

In a special resolution the congress expressed its indignation at the violence of the White terror in Hungary. The Seventh All-Russian Congress of Soviets welcomed the establishment of the Third International. It also endorsed the messages To the Red Army and Navy, acknowledging the bravery and heroism of the soldiers of the revolution in fighting for the independence of the Soviet homeland, and To the Working Peasants, calling on rural working people to strengthen their alliance with the working class and emphasizing the decisive role of that alliance in the joint struggle against counterrevolution and intervention. The congress also endorsed the message To the Toiling Cossacks of the Don, Kuban’, Terek, Urals, Siberia, and Orenburg, exposing the White Guard slanders about the attitude of Soviet power toward the cossacks and calling on all toiling cossacks to take the side of the Soviet state and join the fight against the enemies of the Soviet Republic. The Seventh All-Russian Congress of Soviets elected a new All-Russian Central Executive Committee, consisting of 201 members and 68 candidate members.

REFERENCES

Lenin, V. 1. Poln. sobr. soch., 5th ed., vol. 39, pp. 385–436.
S”ezdy Sovetov SSSR, soiuznykh i avtonomnykh Sovelskikh Sotsialisti-cheskikh Respublik: Sb. dokumentov, vol. I. Moscow, 1959.

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