Group of Democratic Centralism

Group of Democratic Centralism
Группа демократического централизма
LeaderVladimir Smirnov
Timofei Sapronov
FoundedMarch 1919 (1919-03)
DissolvedMarch 1921 (1921-03)
Merged intoLeft Opposition
IdeologyCommunism
Democratic centralism
Political positionFar-left
National affiliationCommunist Party of the Soviet Union

The Group of Democratic Centralism (Russian: Группа демократического централизма, romanizedGruppa demokraticheskogo tsentralizma), sometimes called the Group of 15, the Decists, or the Decemists (децисты, detsisti), was a dissenting faction within the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in the early 1920s.