In the early 1920s, Bolshevik rule had not yet developed into the totalitarian system and Ukraine was one of the main arenas of political resistance to the Moscow center.
A striking example of left-wing opposition within the Bolshevik organization was the Democratic Centralists, who at the IV Congress of the Communist Party managed to defeat Stalin’s position on economic reconstruction.
How did they achieve this, and why was their success so short — in our new article.
https://commons.com.ua/en/demokratychni-tsentralisty-v-ukraini/