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H I S T O R Y

O F  T H E

C O M M U N I S T   P A R T Y

O F  T H E

S O V I E T  U N I O N

(B O L S H E V I K S)


Short Course


 
E D I T E D  B Y  A  C O M M I S S I O N  O F  T H E
C E N T R A L  C O M M I T T E E  O F  T H E  C. P. S. U. (B.)


A U T H O R I Z E D  B Y  T H E  C E N T R A L  C O M M I T T E E
O F  T H E  C. P. S. U. (B.)


Copyright, 1939, by
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C O N T E N T S
 
[Part 3 -- Chapters 10-12]

 

Chapter Ten

THE BOLSHEVIK PARTY IN THE STRUGGLE FOR THE SOCIALIST
INDUSTRIALIZATION OF THE COUNTRY
(1926-1929)

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2.
 
 
 

3.
 
 

Difficulties in the Period of Socialist Industrialization and
the Fight to Overcome Them. Formation of the Anti-Party Bloc
of Trotskyites and Zinovievites. Anti-Soviet Actions of the
Bloc. Defeat of the Bloc

Progress of Socialist Industrialization. Agriculture Lags. Fif-
teenth Party Congress. Policy of Collectivization in Agricul-
ture. Rout of the Bloc of Trotskyites and Zinovievites. Politi-
cal Duplicity

Offensive Against the Kulaks. The Bukharin-Rykov Anti-Party
Group. Adoption of the First Five-Year Plan. Socialist Emula-
tion. Beginning of the Mass Collective-Farm Movement


 
 
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Brief Summary

299


 
Chapter Eleven

THE BOLSHEVIK PARTY IN THE STRUGGLE FOR THE COLLEC-
TIVIZATION OF AGRICULTURE
(1930-1934)

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2.
 
 
 
 

3.
 
 
 
 
 

4.
 
 
 

International Situation in 1930-34. Economic Crisis in the
Capitalist Countries. Japanese Annexation of Manchuria. Fas-
cists' Advent to Power in Germany. Two Seats of War

From the Policy of Restricting the Kulak Elements to the Pol-
icy of Eliminating the Kulaks as a Class. Struggle Against
Distortions of the Party Policy in the Collective-Farm Move-
ment. Offensive Against the Capitalist Elements Along the
Whole Line. Sixteenth Party Congress

Policy of Reconstructing All Branches of the National Econ-
omy. Importance of Technique. Further Spread of the Collec-
tive-Farm Movement. Political Departments of the Machine
and Tractor Stations. Results of the Fulfilment of the Five-
Year Plan in Four Years. Victory of Socialiam Along the Whole
Front. Seventeenth Party Congress

Degeneration of the Bukharinites Into Political Double-Deal-
ers. Degeneration of the Trotskyite Double-Dealers Into a
Whiteguard Gang of Assassins and Spies. Foul Murder of S. M.
Kirov. Measures of the Party to Heighten Bolshevik Vigilance.


 
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Brief Summary

329


 
Chapter Twelve

THE BOLSHEVIK PARTY IN THE STRUGGLE TO COMPLETE THE
BUILDING OF THE SOCIALIST SOCIETY. INTRODUCTION
OF THE NEW CONSTITUTION
(1935-1937)

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2.
 
 
 
 
 

3.
 

4.
 
 
 
 

International Situation in 1935-37. Temporary Mitigation of
the Economic Crisis. Beginning of a New Economic Crisis.
Seizure of Ethiopia by Italy. German and Italian Intervention
in Spain. Japanese Invasion of Central China. Beginning of the
Second Imperialist War

Further Progress of Industry and Agriculture in the U.S.S.R.
Second Five-Year Plan Fulfilled Ahead of Time. Reconstruc-
tion of Agriculture and Completion of Collectivization. Im-
portance of Cadres. Stakhanov Movement. Rising Standard of
Welfare. Rising Cultural Standard. Strength of the Soviet
Revolution

Eighth Congress of Soviets. Adoption of the New Constitution
of the U.S.S.R.

Liquidation of the Remnants of the Bukharin-Trotsky Gang of
Spies, Wreckers and Traitors to the Country. Preparations for
the Election of the Supreme Soviet of the U.S.S.R. Broad Inner-
Party Democracy as the Party's Course. Election of the
Supreme Soviet of the U.S.S.R.


 
 
 
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CONCLUSION


353

GLOSSARY

364




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