I'm learning about Democratic Centralism, and was curious about what kind of stuff the Bolsheviks were voting on/changing during the time before they seized power?

Is there a list of all the votes or something?

Thank you

  • Alaskaball [comrade/them]MA
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    3 years ago

    For primary sources you're going to need to either much through the Russian side of the archives and hope you can stumble on what you're looking for through translation and trial and error or contact the American side and pay a fee for professional help in your search

    Generally speaking an official meeting, whether that's a club, commission, committee, etc. generally follow similar methods of executing the meeting. It tends to start off with the establishment of a meeting agenda - composed of a review of the meeting minutes of the previous meeting (summarization of the last meeting), reviewing or following through over decisions made at the last meeting, presentations from other related groups if appropriate (I.E the Buryat club of the CPRF after finishing reviewing the minutes of the last meeting and confirming they have prepared a food and literature distribution program to the local industrial district in two months time move on to the next item of the agenda which is having one of their members that represents the Buryati club on the national level in the Commission of Nationalities give a presentation on what the commission did and how that impacts their club), then moving on to opening the floor to members to submit resolutions or projects for club consideration. After that or if time is running out and no extension was voted for, there could be a collective educational reading, a message from the national office, or a small health and welfare update where members share a bit of what goes on in their life.

    All of this is carried out and monitored by the club chair who's the meeting executive, a club scribe who takes the notes of the meeting and compiles them into the meeting minutes for the next meeting, and the timekeeper who keeps all members and speakers on track with the arranged time schedule to ensure as much of the agenda is fulfilled through out the meeting.

    Example of meeting minutes compiled for both the next meeting and for posterity sake

    https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1917/oct/16.htm

    The guide book on how a communist party of organized according to the Leninist model.

    https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/parties/cpusa/1935/07/organisers-manual/index.htm