Alex Cummins, ed. Documents of Soviet History, vol. 4.

CONTENTS

Preface

Introduction

CHAPTER 1

THE YEAR 1926

1 – Letter to Comintern on Party Opposition and the Economic Situation in Soviet Russia. 13 January 1926

2 – Chicherin, Soviet Government Agrees to Participate in League of Nations Commission. 16 January 1926

3 – Party Resolution. Toward Strengthening of Socialist Elements in the National Economy. 25 February 1926

4 – Stalin Proclaims Beginning of New, Second Period of NEP. 13 April 1926

5 – Treaty of Berlin. 24 April 1926

6 – Litvinov on the International Situation of the USSR. 24 April 1926

7 – Stalin on Ukrainization. 26 April 1926

8 – Many Obstacles to Greater Participation of Women in Soviet Life. 30 May 1926

9 – Letter from Stalin on the Lashevich Affair and the Move Against Zinoviev. 25 June 1926

10 – Trotskyist and Zinovievist Opposition. Declaration of the Thirteen. 14 July 1926

11 – Party Resolution after the First General Soviet Elections Since End of the Civil War. 20 July 1926

12 – Party Removes Zinoviev, Lashevich, and Others From Party Leadership Positions. 23 July 1926

13 – Nonaggression Treaty With Lithuania. 28 September 1926

14 – Fifteenth Party Conference of the CPSU—Reports and Debates. 26

October-3 November 1926 6

Rykov’s Report

Miliutin’s Speech

Rykov’s Concluding Speech

Kamenev’s Speech. Declaration of the Six

Zinoviev’s Speech

15 – RSFSR Code of Laws on Marriage, Family and Guardianship. 19 November 1926

16 – National Census of 1926. 17 December 1926

17 – Krupskaia, Criteria for Children’s Books. 23 December 1926

18 – Stalin’s Speech on Perspectives of the Revolution in China. 30 December 1926

CHAPTER 2

THE YEAR 1927

19 – Maiakovsky on Artistic Freedom VersusControl. February 1927

20 – Litvinov on Worsening Anglo-Soviet Relations. 27 February 1927

21 – Eisenstein’s Films Battleship Potemkin and October. April 1927

22 – Litvinov on the Peking Raid. 6 April 1927

23 – Exchange of Notes Regarding Settlement of Existing Conflict With Switzerland. 14 April 1927

24 – Stalin, Questions of the Chinese Revolution. 21 April 1927

25 – Secret Soviet-German Military Agreement Regarding Poison-Gas Experiments. 23 April 1927.

26 – Voroshilov’s Speech to the Fourth Congress of Soviets on the State of the Red Army. 25 April 1927

27 – Obolensky-Osinsky’s Speech to the World Economic Conference. Geneva, 4-23 May 1927

28 – The Arcos Raid. 12 May 1927

29 – Litvinov, Protest Note of the Soviet Government to the British Government. 17 May 1927

30 – Mikoian, The Raid on the Trade Delegation of the Soviet Union in London. May 1927

31 – The German Government Reevaluates Secret Military Relationship with the Soviet Government. Berlin, 18 May 1927

32 – Obolensky-Osinsky Speech on the Results of the World Economic Conference. Geneva, 23 May 1927

33 – Great Britain Severs Diplomatic Relations With USSR. 26 May 1927

34 – Soviet Response to the Rupture of Anglo-Soviet Relations. M. Litvinov’s Note to British Charge d’Affaires. Moscow, 28 May 1927

35 – Litvinov, Soviet Envoy to Poland, Assassinated. 7 June 1927

36 – The GPU Uncovers British Espionage and Conspiracy With Russian Emigres. 9 June 1927

37 – Stalin on the War Scare of 1927, China Question and the Zinoviev-Trotskyist Opposition. 28 July 1927

38 – Metropolitan Sergei’s Epistle. The Russian Orthodox Church Reaches Accommodation with the Soviet State. 29 July 1927

39 – Party Central Committee Censures and Warns Trotsky and Zinoviev of Expulsion. 9 August 1927

40 – N. Semashko States that Soviet Health Services Meet Social, Political, and Medical Needs of Women and Children. 6 October 1927

41 – The October Party Enrollment of 1927. 13 October 1927

42 – Lunacharsky on the State of Educational and Cultural Development Since the October Revolution. 15 October 1927

43 – Trotsky on Opposition Demonstrations During the Anniversary of the October Revolution. 7 November 1927

44 – Litvinov on Total Disarmament. Geneva, 30 November 1927

45 – Fifteenth Party Congress Resolutions. 7-19 December 1927

46 – On the Central Committee Report. 7 December 1927

47 – On the Directives on the Establishment of a Five Year Plan for the National Economy. 19 December 1927

48 – On Work in the Countryside. 19 December 1927

CHAPTER 3

THE YEAR 1928

49 – Opposition Appeals to Comintern. January 1928

50 – Stalin on his Visit to Siberia and “Emergency Measures.” 15 January-6 February 1928

51 – From the Eight-Hour to Seven-Hour Working Day. Decree. 17 January 1928

52 – Artists and Proletarian Realism. Declaration of the Association of Artists of the Revolution. February 1928

53 – Litvinov on Partial Disarmament. Geneva, 23 March 1928

54 – Stalin’s Speech on Respite in Party Conflict, Success of “Emergency Measures,” and the Shakhty Affair. 13 April 1928

55 – New Rift in Party Leadership. Secret Meeting Between Bukharin and Kamenev. 11 July 1928

56 – Stalin on the Comintern, “Emergency Measures,” and the Shakhty Affair. 13 July 1928

57 – Stalin on the Dnieper Hydroelectric Power Station. 31 August 1928

58 – Comintern Manifesto on the New Program. 1 September 1928

59 – Pravda Reports on the Celebration of the Centenary of Leo Tolstoy’s Birth. 10 September 1928

60 – Kuibyshev Calls for Rapid Industrialization and Attempts to Mollify the Technical Intelligentsia. 19 September 1928

61 – Bukharin Criticizes Current Economic Policy and Calls for Moderation. Notes of an Economist. 30 September 1928

62 – Stalin Moves Toward Rapid Industrialization, Collectivization, and Against Right Deviation. 19 November 1928

63 – Party Approves Resolution to Enlist Writers and Artists in Socialist Construction. 28 December 1928

64 – Litvinov on Soviet-Polish Relations and the Kellogg-Briand Pact. 29 December 1928

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Index of Personal Names

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Index of Institutions

Index of Geographic and Place Names