14th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks)

The 14th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) was held during 18–31 December 1925 in Moscow. The congress elected the 14th Central Committee.

The agenda of the congress included:

• the political report of the Central Committee, delivered by Josef Stalin;
• the organizational report of the Central Committee, read by Vyacheslav Molotov;
• the report of the Auditing Commission, given by Dmitry Kursky;
• the report of the Central Control Commission, presented by Valerian Kuybyshev;
• the report of the RCP(B) delegation in the Executive Committee of the Comintern, read by Grigory Zinoviev

Moreover, Mikhail Tomsky gave an account of the work of the trade unions, Nikolai Bukharin reported on the efforts of the Komsomol, and A. A. Andreev discussed changes of the party rules.

In another session the congress heard Georgy Chicherin’s report on the international situation and Soviet foreign policy.

This congress was marked by the struggle between Joseph Stalin and Leon Trotsky for control of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks).

External links

• Fourteenth Congress of the CPSU (Bolshevik) in The Great Soviet Encyclopedia, 3rd Edition (1970-1979).
• The 14th congress, “industrial congress”, of the all-Union Communist party of Bolsheviks opened; Boris Yeltsin Presidential Librairy
• The Fourteenth Congress of the C.P.S.U.(B.); speech by J. V. Stalin; Works, Vol. 7, 1925 Foreign Languages Publishing House, Moscow, 1954