ABSTRACT
The check to the German Revolution, and the disappearance of the hope of the outbreak of a world revolution, called for the elaboration of a new tactical and strategical dogma for the Russian Communist Party and the Comintern. As a realist whose feet were firmly planted on the earth, Stalin was not content with abstractions. Lenin had proclaimed urbi et orbi that the Russian Revolution was only the first phase of the world revolution. The active circles of the Party no longer knew where they should seek the revolutionary truth. Stalin did not appear to consider himself capable of accomplishing this theoretical transfer without help. In order to do so he appealed to his old Viennese 'guide', Nicolas Ivanovitch Bukharin. The chapter explains that the Fourteenth Congress approved of the general line followed by the Politburo and the Party by the crushing majority of 560 votes against 61, with 29 abstentions. Zinoviev and Kamenev were checkmated.
