Nikolai Rozhkov

At the 5th Congress of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party he was elected as a full member of the Central Committee.

He graduated from the Faculty of History and Philology of the Imperial Moscow University and at the same time was involved in student activism.

Shortly after he was in conflict with Vladimir Lenin and his views on the Bolsheviks' agricultural policies and criticised him at the 4th Congress of the RSDLP.

[4] Here he argued three points:[4] Zinoviev responded to the article with a somewhat stern but friendly letter which reproved Rozhkov for his position, which he saw as comparable to the liquidationists.

[4] Rozhkov refused to give up his ideas, and wrote a second article "A System of Operation" in which he had advocated the establishment of an organisation called "The Political Society for the Protection of the Interests of the Working Class".

[4] Rozhkov then wrote "The Contemporary Situation in Russia and the Fundamental Task of the Working Class Movement in the Present Moment".

He continued his criticism of the new regime and was eventually arrested by the Cheka in 1921 and was held in custody at the Peter and Paul Fortress.