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  ^[50] The Fourteenth Congress of the C.P.S.U.(B.) took place in Moscow, December 18-31, 1925. The congress discussed the political and organisational reports of the Central Committee the reports of the Auditing Commission, of the Central Control

 
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Commission and of the representatives of the R.C.P.(B.) on the Executive Committee of the Comintern; and also reports on: the work of the trade unions; the work of the Young Communist League; revision of the Party Rules, etc. The congress fully approved the political and organisational line of the Central Committee, indicated the further path of struggle for the victory of socialism, endorsed the Party's general line for the socialist industrialisation of the country, rejected the defeatist plans of the oppositionists and instructed the Central Committee resolutely to combat all attempts to undermine the unity of the Party. The Fourteenth Congress of the C.P.S.U.(B.) has taken its place in the history of the Party as the Industrialisation Congress. The key-note of this congress was the struggle against the "new opposition," which denied the possibility of building socialism in the U.S.S.R. By decision of the Fourteenth Congress, the Party adopted the name of Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Bolsheviks) -- C.P.S.U.(B.). (Concerning the Fourteenth Congress of the C.P.S.U.(B.) see History of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Bolsheviks). Short Course. Moscow 1952, pp. 423-28.)    [p. 265]

  ^[51] This refers to the conference held in Locarno (Switzerland), October 5-16, 1925, at which Great Britain, France, Italy, Belgium, Poland, Czechoslovakia and Germany were represented. (Concerning the Locarno Conference see pp. 279-80 in this volume.)    [p. 277]

  ^[52] In Genoa (Italy), April 10-May 19, 1922, an international economic conference was held in which Great Britain, France, Italy, Belgium, Japan and other capitalist states, on the one hand, and Soviet Russia, on the other, took part The Genoa Conference was called for the purpose of determinmg the relations between the capitalist world and Soviet Russia. At the opening of the conference the Soviet delegation submitted an extensive programme for the rehabilitation of Europe and also a scheme for universal disarmament. The conference did not accept the Soviet delegation's proposals.

 
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    On December 2, 1922, the Soviet Government convened in Moscow a conference of representatives of the neighbouring Western states (Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Poland and Lithuania), at which it submitted for discussion a plan for proportional reduction of armaments. On December 27, 1922, the Tenth All-Russian Congress of Soviets, in an appeal "To All the Peoples of the World," reaffirmed the Soviet Government's peace policy and called upon the working people all over the world to support this policy. In February 1924, at the Naval Conference held in Rome, the Soviet representative submitted concrete proposals for reducing naval armaments.    [p. 287]

  ^[53] This refers to the general and commercial treaties between Great Britain and the U.S.S.R. signed in London on August 8, 1924, by representatives of the Soviet Government and of the MacDonald Labour Government. The British Conservative Government, which came into office in Britain in November 1924, refused to ratify those treaties.    [p. 297]

  ^[54] The decree of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee of Soviets of Workers', Soldiers' and Peasants' Deputies annulling the state debts of the tsarist government was adopted on January 21, 1918.    [p. 297]

  ^[55] This refers to the Conservative Baldwin-Austen Chamberlain Government that came into power in November 1924 in place of the MacDonald Labour Government.    [p. 299]

  ^[56] Ekonomicheskaya Zhizn (Economic Life ), a daily newspaper, organ of the economic and financial People's Commissariats and institutions of the R.S.F.S.R. and U.S.S.R. (Supreme Council of National Economy, Council of Labour and Defence, the State Planning Commission, the State Bank, the People's Commissariat of Finance, and others); published from November 1918 to November 1937.    [p. 306]

  ^[57] This refers to V. I. Lenin's works: "Left-Wing" Childishness and Petty-Bourgeois Mentality (Works, 4th Russ. ed., Vol. 27, pp.

 
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291-319), Report on the Tax in Kind Delivered at a Meeting of Secretaries and Responsible Representatives of R.C.P.(B.) Units of the City of Moscow and of the Moscow Gubernia on April 9, 1921, and The Tax in Kind (Works, 4th Russ. ed., Vol. 32, pp. 262-76, 308-43), and Five Years of the Russian Revolution and the Prospects of the World Revolution (Report delivered at the Fourth Congress of the Comintern on November 13, 1922) (Works, 4th Russ. ed., Vol. 33, pp. 380-94).    [p. 311]

  ^[58] See Resolutions and Decisions of C.P.S.U.(B.) Congresses, Conferences and Central Committee Plenums, Part I,1941, p. 566.    [p. 320]

  ^[59] See V. I. Lenin's "Preliminary Draft of Theses on the Agrarian Question (For the Second Congress of the Communist International)" (Works, 4th Russ. ed., Vol. 31, pp. 129-41).    [p. 332]

  ^[60] See V. I. Lenin, Works, 4th Russ. ed., Vol. 29, pp. 124-25.    [p. 335]

  ^[61] This refers to the resolution adopted by the plenum of the Central Committee of the R.C.P.(B.) (October 3-10, 1925) on V. M. Molotov's report on "The Party's Work among the Rural Poor" (see Resolutions and Decisions of C.P.S.U.(B.) Congresses, Conferences and Central Committee Plenums, Part II, 1941, pp. 38-41).    [p. 338]

  ^[62] See V. I. Lenin, Works, 4th Russ. ed., Vol. 6, pp. 325-92.    [p. 339]

  ^[63] Bednota (The Poor ), a daily newspaper, organ of the Central Committee of the C.P.S.U.(B.), published from March 1918 to January 1931.    [p. 372]

  ^[64] Leningradskaya Pravda (Leningrad Truth ), a daily newspaper, organ of the Leningrad Regional and City Committees of the C.P.S.U.(B.) and Leningrad Regional and City Soviets of Work-

 
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ing People's Deputies; started publication in 1918 under the title of Petrogradskaya Pravda. In 1924 it was renamed Leningradskaya Pravda. At the end of 1925, Leningradskaya Pravda, the organ of the North-Western Regional Bureau of the Central Committee of the R.C.P.(B.), the Leningrad Gubernia Party Committee the Leningrad Gubernia Council of Trade Unions, and the Regional Economic Conference, was utilised by the "new opposition" for its factional anti-Party aims.    [p. 389]