Militarised labour policy was adopted in 1920 and eroded by trade-union opposition.

Evidence

The militarisation of labour was a labour policy which operated for a short time in the Soviet Union during the period of War Communism. Adopted at the IXth Party Congress in 1920, it met with growing opposition from the Trades Unions particularly after the end of the Civil War. It was most closely associated with the figure of Trotsky who, at the IXth Congress, put the policy in these terms: “Militarisation is unthinkable without the militarisation of the Trades Unions as such, without the establishment of a regime in. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 2431

Categorization

• QUESTION: How exactly did the IXth Congress vote, and what was the constitutional status of the militarisation decrees relative to union autonomy? Worth chasing if this becomes a writing topic.