[1][3] EKP argued in favour of a merger with the Bund, to form a Jewish section of the Communist International.
[2] The proposed Jewish Comintern section would work under the aegis of the national communist party in each country, apart from Palestine.
[2] EKP was fiercely opposed to the Yevsektsiya, the Jewish Section of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks).
The Jewish population of the city grew considerably in those years because of the pogroms committed by the White Army in Ukraine, Belarus and Russia that led many Jews to find shelter in Azerbaijan, a country without an antisemitic tradition.
The fact that the Jewish population had grown up to 13,700 persons helped the EKP (as well as the Communist Bund, the Yevsektsiya and the Zionist parties) to enlarge its membership in the area.