Transmission belt

Transmission belt is a Marxist–Leninist analogy to describe interactions of the communist party with the people in a communist state via mass organizations, such as trade unions. All these institutions worked under the party's leadership.^[1] Examples are the All-Union Central Council of Trade Unions of the Soviet Union and the All-China Federation of Trade Unions, were and are transmission belt organisations.^[2]

The term originates^{[citation needed]} from Vladimir Lenin's speech to the 8th All-Russian Congress of Soviets, the All-Russian Central Council of Trade Unions and the Moscow City Council of Trade Unions, on 30 December 1920.^[3]

References

Books

• Adam, Jan (2016). Why Did the Socialist System Collapse in Central and Eastern European Countries?: The Case of Poland, the Former Czechoslovakia and Hungary. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-0-312-12879-1.
• Sakwa, Richard (2002). Russian Politics and Society. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 0-415-22752-6.
• Simon, Karla W. (2013). Civil Society in China: The Legal Framework from Ancient Times to the "New Reform Era". Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-976589-8.

Footnotes

1. Adam 2016, p. 94.
2. Sakwa 2002, p. 319; Simon 2013, p. 169.
3. Lenin, Vladimir. "The Trade Unions, The Present Situation And Trotsky's Mistakes". Lenin’s Collected Works, 1st English Edition, Progress Publishers, Moscow, 1965, Volume 32, pages 19-42. Progress Publishers. Retrieved 27 December 2013.