ABSTRACT
Lenin's proposal to reorganize the Commissariat of Workers' and Peasants' Inspection Called Rabkrin, for short.-Tr. was met with extreme hostility by Stalin's group. At the meeting of the Politburo, called immediately upon the demand, all those present, Comrades Stalin, Molotov, Kuibishev, Rykov, Kalinin, Bukharin, were not only against Lenin's plan, but against the very printing of the article. The members of the secretariat were particularly harsh and categorical in their opposition. 'The chief argument which induced them to print the article was that an article by Lenin ought not to be concealed from the party in any case. In place of a struggle against Lenin's plan, a policy of 'drawing its teeth' was adopted. The conduct of Stalin upon this question first clearly proved to me that the proposal to reorganize the Central Control Committee and the Central Committee, was directed by Lenin solely and entirely against the bureaucratic power of Stalin, then already excessive, and against his disloyalty.
