Editing Workers' Opposition (section)

{{Short description|1920–1921 faction of the Russian Communist Party}}
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| leader = [[Alexander Shliapnikov]]
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The '''Workers' Opposition''' ({{langx|ru|Рабочая оппозиция|Rabochaya oppozitsiya}}) was a faction of the [[Russian Communist Party (Bolshevik)|Russian Communist Party]] that emerged in 1920 as a response to the perceived over-bureaucratisation that was occurring in [[Russian SFSR|Soviet Russia]]. They advocated for the transfer of national economic management to [[trade unions]]. The group was led by [[Alexander Shlyapnikov]], [[Sergei Medvedev (revolutionary)|Sergei Medvedev]], [[Alexandra Kollontai]] and [[Yuri Lutovinov]]. It officially existed until March 1921 when it was forced to dissolve by the [[10th Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks)]], and semi-clandestinely until the subsequent [[11th Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks)|11th Congress]] in 1922, where its main exponents teetered dangerously on the verge of being purged for fractionist activity. In some aspects, it was close with the German [[council communist]] movement, although there is no information about direct contacts between these groups.<ref>At the end of August 1921 and in March 1922 Shlyapnikov rejected invitations from within the leftist [[Communist Workers' Party of Germany]] for the Workers' Opposition to participate in the founding of a new International. Also fearing they could be provocations by the [[Cheka]], he replied twice that the Workers' Opposition no longer existed after the [[10th Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks)|10th Party Congress]] and that he personally frowned upon any split of the [[Communist International|Third International]] (Allen, ''Alexander Shlyapnikov'', pp. 214 and 241).</ref>