Charles
Bettelheim

Class
Struggles
in the
USSR

Second Period: 1923-1930
[Section 2 -- Part 2]





NOTE: The translation of this book into English has given the author the opportunity to check a number of his references and, as a result, to revise parts of the text.



© 1978 by Monthly Review Press

Translated by Brian Pearce
 
Originally published as
Les Luttes de classes en URSS
© 1977 by Maspero/Seuil, Paris, France



Prepared © for the Internet by David J. Romagnolo, [email protected] (February 2001)
(Corrected and Updated January-February 2017)


  Contents


 

[ Section 2 ]



Part 2.
 
 
 
 


The village during the NEP
period. Differentiation and class
struggles. Agricultural policy and
transformation of social relations
in agriculture


 
 
 
 
83

1.
 

The social conditions of immediate
production during the NEP period


85

2.
 
 
 

The economic and social conditions
governing the reproduction and
transformation of production relation
agriculture during the NEP


 
 
135

3.
 
 

The reproduction and transformation of
ideological and political relations in the
rural areas


 
163




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page 83





   Part 2
     The village during the NEP period.
     Differentiation and class struggles.
     Agricultural policy and transformation
     of social relations in agriculture

    The analyses offered in the following pages relate to the economic and social structure of the Soviet countryside toward the end of the NEP. Their purpose is to throw light on the conditions governing the articulation of class relations and class struggles in the villages with agricultural policy and to show how these relations and struggles led to the final crisis of the NEP.

    It was the articulation of class struggles with agricultural policy that determined the changes which the Soviet countryside underwent between 1924 and 1929. These changes cannot be seen as an "autonomous process," dominated exclusively by some ineluctable "internal necessity." They cannot be divorced from the policy followed toward the peasantry and its various strata. In its turn, this policy needs to be related to the development of the contradictions within the urban sector and the way with which these were dealt -- problems that will be considered later.









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