{{no footnotes, date=August 2014 The Lenin Enrolment or the Lenin's call to the party (Lenin Levy) (after

Vladimir Lenin Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov ( 187021 January 1924), better known as Vladimir Lenin, was a Russian revolutionary, politician and political theorist. He was the first head of government of Soviet Russia from 1917 until Death and state funeral of ...

) was an effort from 1923 to 1925 to enroll more members of the

proletariat The proletariat (; ) is the social class of wage-earners, those members of a society whose possession of significant economic value is their labour power (their capacity to work). A member of such a class is a proletarian or a . Marxist ph ...

into the Communist party and incite them to become active in party affairs. In total, over 500,000 were recruited. It came in response to growing criticism of the Communist party as elitist by the rank and file. Even though the party claimed to represent the working class, most of its membership, and particularly its leadership, including Lenin himself, came from the educated classes. The criticism reached a peak at the 10th party congress in 1920 when the "workers' opposition" openly challenged Lenin. Even though Lenin managed to put down the rebellion within party ranks that time, the pressure to make the party more representative of its supposed base could no longer be ignored.

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* ''EH Carr The interregnum Harmondsworth 1969, p361.'' * Hatch, J. (1989). The "Lenin Levy" and the Social Origins of Stalinism: Workers and the Communist Party in Moscow, 1921-1928. Slavic Review, 48(4), 558-577. doi:10.2307/2499783.
Genesis of bureaucratic socialism
Politics of the Soviet Union 1923 establishments in the Soviet Union

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