Syrtsov-Lominadze Affair

Left-Right Bloc
Leader (left)Vissarion Lominadze
Leader (right)Sergey Syrtsov
FoundedJuly 1930 (1930-07)
DissolvedDecember 1930 (1930-12)
Merger ofRightists
Leftists
Preceded byUnited Opposition
Merged intoBloc of Soviet Oppositions
IdeologyAnti-collectivism
National affiliationCommunist Party of the Soviet Union

In the history of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union the Left-Right bloc (Russian: лево-правый блок, romanizedlevo-pravyy blok) was a failed attempt of vocal opposition to the politics of forced collectivization Joseph Stalin. Vissarion Lominadze and Sergey Syrtsov were recognized as its leaders.[1] The name is derived from the accusation in factionism of the group created by joining of two groups: the one accused in "right opportunism" and allegedly headed by Syrtsov and another one accused of "leftism" and "half-Trotskyism" allegedly headed by Lominadze. In Western literature the case is known as the Syrtsov-Lominadze Affair.[2]

  1. ^ Vadim Rogovin, "Power and Oppositions" (" Власть и оппозиции")
  2. ^ R. W. Davies, "The Syrtsov-Lominadze Affair", Soviet Studies Vol. 33, No. 1 (Jan. 1981), pp. 29-50, JSTOR 151473

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