official statements suggest that the party actually intended to reduce its appointment authority.

Criticism

In 1921, the Kronstadt rebels cited the dissolution of the bureaucratic institutions established by the Bolsheviks during the Civil War amongst their key demands, claiming the party had: "become bureaucratized, learned nothing, and not wanted to learn and to listen to the voice of the masses".

In 1922, a dying Lenin formed an alliance

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