Preceding events and preparation
The decision of the 1st congress of the CP(b)U on the creation of the Communist Party of Ukraine was met with approval in the vast majority of party branches, it corresponded to their aspiration to unity on an all-Ukrainian scale as part of a single party, with its Central Committee, significantly intensified their work, which delegates of the 2nd congress of the CP(b)U, which took place three months later, emphasized with particular elation in their speeches. However, the issue of the basic law of the internal life of the Communist Party of Ukraine - the statute, which fixes its name and purpose, regulates activities, defines the rights and obligations of party members and its bodies - was not considered at the 1st Congress of the Communist Party of Ukraine. As recorded in the minutes of the congress, when considering the organizational and practical tasks of the party, the speaker (N. Skripnik) did not dwell on the question of the statute, since it automatically fell away due to the fact of the adoption of the resolution on the entry of the Communist Party of Ukraine into the single Russian Communist Party, which had its own statute. The absence of its own statute, apparently, did not suit all party members, because already at the 2nd Congress of the CP(b)U, held in October 1918, the question of the statute arose again. Moreover, at the evening meeting on October 21, a statutory commission was even elected (S. Kosior, P. Rovner, I. Kreisberg, I. Schwartz, N. Beschetvertnoi), which was tasked with preparing a draft of the statute for the next meeting together with the presidium of the congress.Agenda
*Information from localities *Report of the Central Committee of the Communist Party (Bolsheviks) of Ukraine (CC KP(b)U) *Report of the All-Ukrainian Central Military Revolutionary Committee (AUCMRC) *Information about international situation *Information about current moment *About celebration of the First anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution *About relationships inter-partisan organizations and revolutionary committees *About the attitude towards the Party of Left Socialist Revolutionaries, Left Bund members and other parties that announced recognition of the Soviet power platform *About the CP(b)U statute *About the convocation time of the 3rd Congress of the Communist Party (Bolsheviks) of Ukraine *Elections of governing bodies of the CP(b)UStatutory Commission
*Central Committee
The Congress elected the following members to the Central Committee on October 22, 1918: Elected Members # Sergeyev Fyodor Andreyevich (Comrade Artyom) # Beschetvertnoi Nikolay Ilyich # Gruzman Shulim Aizikovich # Drobnis Yakov Naumovich # Zaks (Gladnev) Samuil Markovich # Zatonskiy Vladimir Petrovich # Zimak Alexander Iosifovich # Kwiring Emmanuil Ionovich # Pyatakov Yuriy Leonidovich # Reut Mikhail Venediktovich # Slinko Petr Fedorovich # Stalin (Dzhugashvili) Iosif Vissarionovich # Tarskiy (Sokolovskiy) Leonid Lvovich # Schwartz Isaac Izrailevich # Yakovlev (Epstein) Yakov Arkadievich Candidates # Amosov Ivan Karpovich # Bliznichenko Andrei Yemelyanovich # Vinokurov Naum Mikhailovich # Gamarnik Jan Borisovich # Zharko Afanasiy Mikhailovich # Zolotov Fyodor Mikhailovich # Klochko Vladimir Yuryevich # Kosior Stanislav Vikentievich # Lugovoy (Levinstein) Alexander Vasilyevich # Morshin I. D. (Rusin Alexey Ivanovich) # Rovner Pinkhus Lazarevich # Skripnik Nikolay Alekseevich # Smolyakov Lazar Abramovich # Kharchenko Taras Ivanovich # Chernysh (Borisov) B. V. The next day on October 23, 1918, took place a plenum (plenary session) of the Central Committee that electedFormer members
Elected Members # Bubnov Andrei Sergeevich # Butsenko Afanasiy Ivanovich # Kartvelishvili Lavrentiy Iosifovich # Kreisberg Isaac Mironovich # Lutovinov Yuriy Khrisanfovich # Farbman Rafail Borisovich Candidates # Lebed Dmitriy Zakharovich # Mayorov Mikhail Moiseevich (Biberman Meer Moiseevich)The Central Committee plenums
* 23–26 October 1918Congresses, conferences, and plenums of the CP(b) – CP of Ukraine (Съезды, конференции и пленумы КП(б) - КП Украины)General overview of the congress
In 15 reports from Oblast, Governorate and City underground committees of CP(b)U, there was analyzed situation at places, disclosed the party work on reinforcement of the Bolshevik underground cells and revolutionary committees as well as their connections with masses, leadership in fighting of working people against the oppressors. In informational reports of the CC CP(b)U and the AUCMRC results were summed up on CP(b)U activities on creation and strengthening of underground party organizations and revolutionary committees, leadership of the 1918 All-Ukrainian rail worker strike, armed struggle against the occupiers, creation in the "neutral zone" Ukrainian insurgent divisions. Delegates criticized the fallacy of tactics of CC CP(b)U and AUCMRC which led to a premature call to general armed uprising in August 1918. The congress emphasized that in order to strengthen the party leadership through all forms of people's war, it is necessary to shift the center of gravity of the party's work to the occupied territory, especially to the industrial areas, to strengthen the Ukrainian Soviet Divisions; that victory over the occupiers and the counter-revolution can be achieved only on the basis of the union of the working people of Ukraine and Russia. The congress indicated that the CP(b) of Ukraine should coordinate its actions with the forces of proletarian Russia. In a special resolution, the congress noted the need to unify the trade unions of Ukraine and Russia and obliged the communists to strengthen the work in the trade unions so that they act under the slogans of the Soviet power. Congress in special resolution put forward a demand to strengthen the party leadership of underground revolutionary committees. In the resolution "On the celebration of the anniversary of the October Revolution", the congress obliged the party organizations to release special leaflets, carry on in workers' areas one-day strikes and demonstrations and mass rallies in the villages. The congress was held under the banner of proletarian internationalism. In the address "To the workers of all countries", he declared solidarity with the revolutionary struggle of the proletariat of Europe. In the spirit of V. I. Lenin's instructions, the congress resolved the issue of providing comprehensive aid to the revolutionary movement among the Austro-German soldiers. The Congress elected the CC CP(b)U. For the first time, the Audit Commission of the CP(b)U was elected. On October 22, 1918, delegates of the congress took part in the meeting of theFurther reading
* Протоколы II съезда, коммунистической партии (большевков) Украины. М., 1918 * Нариси історії Комуністичної партії України К., 1977 * Погребінський М. Другий з'їзд КП(б)У К.. 1958References
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*Pohrebinsky, M.