9th All Russian Congress

Ninth All-Russian Congress of Soviets of Workers, Peasants, Red Army and Cossack Deputies. December 23-28, 1921

Verbatim record. - [Moscow: [b. and.], 1922]. - 22 cm.

Verbatim report of the 9th All-Russian Congress of Soviets, held on December 23-28, 1921, in Moscow. At the congress, the results of the NEP were summed up, and the Declaration on the International Position of the RSFSR was adopted.

Among the issues discussed at the congress: foreign and domestic policy of the government, the course of the new economic policy, the development of agriculture, aid to the hungry, the restoration of industry, the transformation of the Cheka into the GPU under the NKVD. The congress approved the decree of the Council of People's Commissars "On the electrification of the RSFSR", which consolidated the steps towards the implementation of the GOELRO plan.