J. V. Stalin

THE FIFTEENTH CONGRESS
OF THE C.P.S.U.(B.)

December 2-19, 1927



Pravda, Nos. 279, 282
December 6 and 9, 1927



From J. V. Stalin, Works
Foreign Languages Publishing House,
Moscow, 1954,

Vol. 10, pp. 275-382.


Prepared © for the Internet by David J. Romagnolo, [email protected] (September 1998)
(Corrected and Updated August 2000)

THE FIFTEENTH CONGRESS OF THE C.P.S.U.(B.), December 2-19,
  1927 [68] .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .


275

 Political Report of the Central Committee, December 3  .   .

277

I.
 

The Growing Crisis of World Capitalism and the External Situation of the U.S.S.R.   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .


277


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2.
 
3.
 
4.
5.

The Economics of World Capitalism and the Intensification of the
Struggle for Foreign Markets .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .
The International Policy of Capitalism and the Preparation of New
Imperialist Wars .  .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .
The State of the World Revolutionary Movement and the Harbingers
of a New Revolutionary Upsurge  .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .
The Capitalist World and the U.S.S.R.    .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .
Conclusions   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .


287
 
282
 
288
291
297

II.
 

The Successes of Socialist Construction and the Internal Situation in the U.S.S.R.   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .


398


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2.
3.
4.

The National Economy as a Whole .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .
The Rate of Development of Our Large-Scale Socialist Industry .   .
The Rate of Development of Our Agriculture .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .
Classes, the State Apparatus and the Country's Cultural Development

300
307
310
321

III.

The Party and the Opposition .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .

333


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2.
3.
4.

The State of the Party   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .
The Results of the Discussion  .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .
The Fundamental Divergences Between the Party and the Opposition
What Next?  .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .

333
342
346
357

 IV.

General Summary .  .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .

361


 Reply to the Discussion on the Political Report of the
   Central Committee, December 7 .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .


 
364

I.

Concerning Rakovsky's Speech   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .

364

II.

Concerning Kamenev's Speech .  .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .

367

III.

The Summing Up .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .

379


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