ABSTRACT
This chapter elaborates the tactics of Stalin's struggle against the Right of the Politburo, but he hesitated for a long while before applying them. As always, he decided to act under the impulse of an eventual pretext. Members of the Right were organizing their forces in Moscow in order to prepare for a coup d'état inside the Party. In order to avoid misunderstandings and discussions after the victory over Stalin, and also because the new allies distrusted one another, the substance of the agreement was recorded in a document which Bukharin consigned to his strong-box in the Politburo. Special emissaries of the Secretariat were sent into the provinces, in order to inform the local Committees and their secretaries of the creation of the cynical and unprincipled 'super-bloc' of Stalin's adversaries. Before the convocation of the Sixteenth Pan-Russian Congress of the Party, which was to open on the 26 June, 1930, the Politburo elaborated its first Five-Year Plan.
