Depicted is the moment when a factory partkom (party committee) considers the acceptance of a new member into the party. This was a responsible step for the young applicants, who were questioned by their elder comrades to ascertain their conformity with the party’s ideological and ethical norms. Awarded an honorary prize at the Industry of Socialism exhibition in 1937, the painting became an important milestone in Lukomsky’s oeuvre. The work revealed the artist’s talent as a portraitist. All the meeting’s participants are expressive types, each with their own character, mood and life story. Lukomsky continued employing this principle in his later paintings, most of which are group portraits of representative character types united by a generic or historical subject.