LENIN ON ORGANIZATION 
THE PARTY CLEANSING. 
(From “Pravda,” No. 210, September 21, 1921). 
The Party cleansing has apparently developed 
into a serious and extremely important piece of 
work. 
In certain localities those who are undertaking 
the cleansing of the Party are relying mainly on the 
experience and the advice of non-Party workers, 
guiding themselves by that advice and consulting 
the representatives of the non-Party proletarian 
masses. That is very valuable, and important fact. 
If we really succeed in cleansing the Party from 
top to bottom in this fashion, “without respect for 
persons,” the conquest of the revolution will indeed 
be great. 
For the conquests of the revolution cannot now 
change in character with the transition from the 
military front to the economic front, with the tran- 
sition to the new economic policy and to conditions 
which demand first and foremost increased produc-~ 
tivity of labor and of greater labor discipline. At 
such a time the main conquests of the revolution 
are internal improvements, which in themselves are 
not striking and not immediately apparent: ime 
provement of the conditions and the product of 
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