Edited sentence: (Vera Brodio, Lenin and the Mensheviks, Aldershot, 1987, p.In August 1924 there was a rising in Georgia against which was suppressed with considerable brutality, the Soviet press later admitting to some 4000 executions.In Petrograd-now Leningrad-a state of emergency was declared in December 1924, during which several hundred people were arrested, sometimes from the street.In September 1923 many of the remaining members of the Workers' Opposition were arrested and imprisoned in various labour camps, where most were later to be executed.Lenin's resolution at the tenth party congress to outlaw 'factions', was used against any view contrary to the established political line.Some early examples of this process may suffice.Terror and political coercion were thus to become an established feature of the Soviet system, growing in intensity over the years, reaching an apex in the late 1930s under Joseph Stalin.The anti-faction resolution was also to be used successively against senior party figures, from Trotsky downwards, creating a widespread atmosphere of fear and intimidation throughout the 1920s.The suppression of dissent was also to reach deep within the ranks of the Communist Party itself