
Published online:
31 October 2013
Published in print:
18 November 2008
Online ISBN:
9780300152227
Print ISBN:
9780300134247
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Bolshevik Policy and the General Strike Bolshevik Policy and the General Strike
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The Breiving Storm The Breiving Storm
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The General Strike: Moves in Advance of the Politburo Meeting The General Strike: Moves in Advance of the Politburo Meeting
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The Unified Workers' Front The Unified Workers' Front
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The Politburo Session of June 3, 1926 “On Lessons from the English Strike” The Politburo Session of June 3, 1926 “On Lessons from the English Strike”
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The Developing “United Opposition” Platform The Developing “United Opposition” Platform
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Conclusions Conclusions
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Notes Notes
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Chapter
4 “Class Brothers Unite!”: The British General Strike and the Formation of the “United Opposition”
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Published:November 2008
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Vatlin, Alexander, '“Class Brothers Unite!”: The British General Strike and the Formation of the “United Opposition”', in Paul Gregory, and Norman Naimark (eds), The Lost Politburo Transcripts: From Collective Rule to Stalin's Dictatorship (New Haven, CT , 2008; online edn, Yale Scholarship Online, 31 Oct. 2013), https://doi.org/10.12987/yale/9780300134247.003.0004, accessed 16 May 2025.
Abstract
This chapter analyzes the transcript of the June 3, 1926 Politburo meeting. The analysis suggests that the British General Strike of May 1926 served as a lightning rod for the Bolsheviks' differences over foreign policy in the 1920s. The chapter explains that Leon Trotsky, Grigory Zinoviev, and Lev Kamenev advocated for the more radical policy to support insurgent British workers against the supposed reformism of the trade unions while Mikhail Tomsky and Alexei Rykov favored a more measured approach to the British trade unions. It also suggests that the dissenting views of the “United Opposition” did not reflect the majority of the Communist Party.
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