Editing Workers' Opposition (section)

====10th Congress====
{{main|10th Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks)}}
At the final stage of the "trade-union debate" of the Soviet Communists, to a large extent, the fate of the trade unions was no longer a cause for concern - the question of which fraction would win the upcoming [[10th Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks)]] became more important. As a result, the struggle of the factions escalated into a battle for leadership in the party - which significantly affected the course of the discussion.<ref name="Sandu"/> In the event, the congress passed a secret resolution "On Party Unity" which [[Ban on factions in the Communist Party of the Soviet Union|banned factions within the party]] and ordered the immediate dissolution of the groups that had been previously formed.<ref>[https://www.marxists.org/history/ussr/government/party-congress/10th/16.htm On Party Unity] 16 March 1921; Soviet History Archive (marxists.org) 2002</ref> The resolution put an end to the aspirations of the Workers' Opposition and the Democratic Centralists.

Another secret resolution specially aimed at the Workers' Opposition was also passed condemning 'the syndicalist and anarchist deviation in our party', which "made further advocacy of the basic tenets of the Workers' Opposition's programme impossible". Yet the Congress shared some of its peripheral proposals, including conducting a purge of the Party and organizing better supply of workers, to improve workers' living conditions, and three of its leaders were elected to the Party Central Committee: Shlyapnikov as a full voting member, Medvedev and [[Aleksei Semyonovich Kiselyov|Kiselyov]] as candidate members.<ref>Allen (''Alexander Shlyapnikov''), p. 187.</ref>  Nevertheless, Party leaders subsequently undertook a campaign to subordinate trade unions to the Party and to harass and intimidate those who opposed this campaign.