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Časopis za zgodovino in narodopisje


In the paper, the author underscores, in contrast to frequent assertions, that during the first period heterogeneity - not homogeneity (known during its mature period) - was the characteristic of the Communist movement. Planned unification began by the "finding" of the Bolshevik leadership at the Second Congress of the Communist International (1920) that the full swing of the Communist movement is impeded by two obstacles: »centrist currents« and »leftist sectarianism« to which the position of the Communist International was not sufficiently revolutionary. By the expelling of the opposition the first period of conflict ended, the one where Bolshevism and leftist Communism confronted each other. Until then ideological conflicts were present throughout in the movement, whereas later they will have an ever more instrumental nature in faction fights, which are to come about in the Bolshevik Party; the result of these struggles determined the policy of the world Communist organization. By 1921 the second period commences, being the period of consolidation of the Communist movement, characterized by its "Russification.''