2nd Congress of the Communist Party (Bolsheviks) of Ukraine

[1] Elected Members Candidates In 15 reports from Oblast, Governorate and City underground committees of CP(b)U, there was analyzed situation at places, disclosed the party work on reinforcement of the Bolshevik underground cells and revolutionary committees as well as their connections with masses, leadership in fighting of working people against the oppressors.

In informational reports of the CC CP(b)U and the AUCMRC results were summed up on CP(b)U activities on creation and strengthening of underground party organizations and revolutionary committees, leadership of the 1918 All-Ukrainian rail worker strike, armed struggle against the occupiers, creation in the "neutral zone" Ukrainian insurgent divisions.

Delegates criticized the fallacy of tactics of CC CP(b)U and AUCMRC which led to a premature call to general armed uprising in August 1918.

The congress emphasized that in order to strengthen the party leadership through all forms of people's war, it is necessary to shift the center of gravity of the party's work to the occupied territory, especially to the industrial areas, to strengthen the Ukrainian Soviet Divisions; that victory over the occupiers and the counter-revolution can be achieved only on the basis of the union of the working people of Ukraine and Russia.

Congress in special resolution put forward a demand to strengthen the party leadership of underground revolutionary committees.

In the resolution "On the celebration of the anniversary of the October Revolution", the congress obliged the party organizations to release special leaflets, carry on in workers' areas one-day strikes and demonstrations and mass rallies in the villages.

In the spirit of V. I. Lenin's instructions, the congress resolved the issue of providing comprehensive aid to the revolutionary movement among the Austro-German soldiers.

The analysis of archival documents shows that the vast majority of rank-and-file communists who worked in the deep underground did not know about the status of the newly formed Communist Party of Ukraine, and the absence of its charter put party organizations in an ambiguous position, requiring their "self-determination", the development of a line of relations, on the one hand - from the Central Committee of the RCP(b), and from the other - from the Central Committee of the CP(b)U.

In May 1920, the first batch of unified party tickets in Russian language arrived in Ukraine, which to some extent caused a negative reaction on the part of the Central Committee of the CP(b)U, and immediately became the subject of consideration at its May (1920) plenum.

In the adopted decision, the Central Committee of the CP(b)U decided to print party tickets in Ukrainian language and those that were previously sent return to Moscow.

However, the aforementioned demarches from the Central Committee of the CP(b)U could no longer help preserve even the nominal independence of the Communist Party of Ukraine.