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  ^[9] The Thirteenth Conference of the R.C.P.(B.) took place in Moscow on January 16-18, 1924. There were present 128 delegates with right of voice and vote and 222 with right of voice only. The conference discussed Party affairs, the international situation, and the immediate tasks in economic policy. On J. V. Stalin's report "Immediate Tasks in Party Affairs" the conference passed two resolutions: "Party Affairs," and "Results of the Discussion and the Petty-Bourgeois Deviation in the Party."
    The conference condemned the Trotskyite opposition, declaring it to be a petty-bourgeois deviation from Marxism, and recommended that the Central Committee publish Point 7 of the resolution "On Party Unity" that was adopted by the Tenth Congress of the R.C.P.(B.) on the proposal of V. I. Lenin. These decisions of the conference were endorsed by the Thirteenth Party Congress and by the Fifth Congress of the Comintern. (For the resolutions of the conference, see Resolutions and Decisions of C.P.S.U.(B.) Congresses, Conferences and Central Committee plenums, Part I, 1941, pp. 535-56.)    [p.49]

  ^[10] This refers to the resolution on Party affairs adopted at the joint meeting of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee and the Presidium of the Central Control Commission of the R.C.P.(B.) held on December 5, 1923, and published in Pravda, No. 278, December 7, 1923. The plenum of the Central Committee of the R.C.P.(B.), which took place on January 14-15, 1924, summed up the discussion in the Party and endorsed the resolution on Party affairs adopted by the Political Bureau

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of the Central Committee and the Presidium of the Central Control Commission for submission to the Thirteenth Party Conference (see Resolutions and Decisions of C.P.S.U.(B.) Congresses, Conferences and Central Committee Plenums, Part I, 1941, pp. 533-40).    [p.49]

  ^[11] See V. I. Lenin, Preliminary Draft of the Resolution of the Tenth Congress of the Russian Communist Party on Party Unity. (1921)    [p.67]

  ^[12] Concerning the document of the 46 members of the opposition, see History of the C.P.S.U.(B.), Short Course, Moscow, 1952, pp. 408-09.    [p.71]

  ^[13] On May 8, 1923, Lord Curzon, British Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, sent the Soviet Government an ultimatum containing slanderous charges against the Soviet Government. It demanded the recall of the Soviet plenipotentiary representatives from Persia and Afghanistan, the release of British fishing boats which had been detained for illegal fishing in the northern territorial waters of the U.S.S.R., etc., and threatened a rupture of trade relations if these demands were not conceded within ten days. Curzon's ultimatum created the danger of a new intervention. The Soviet Government rejected the unlawful claims of the British Government, at the same time expressing complete readiness to settle the relations between the two countries in a peaceful way, and took measures to strengthen the country's defensive capacity.    [p.78]

  ^[14] This refers to the advance on Soviet territoty by German troops under the command of General Hoffmann in February 1918 (see J. V. Stalin, Works, F.L.P.H., Moscow, 1953, Vol. 4, pp. 39-49).    [p.78]

  ^[15] This refers to the counter-revolutionary mutiny in Kronstadt in 1921, and to the kulak revolt in the Tambov Gubernia in 1919-21.    [p.79]

  ^[16] Dni (Days ) -- a daily newspaper of the Socialist-Revolutionary white guard émigrés; published in Berlin from October 1922.    [p.85]

  ^[17] Zarya (Dawn ) -- a magazine of the Right-wing Menshevik whiteguard émigrés; published in Berlin from April 1922 to January 1924.    [p.86]