Alex Cummins, ed. Documents of Soviet History, vol. 5.

CONTENTS

Preface

Introduction

CHAPTER 1

THE YEAR 1929

1 – Party Dominates Academy of Sciences. News Report. 17 January 1929

2 – Krupskaia’s Courageous Article against Rapid and Forced Collectivization. 20 January 1929

3 – Bukharin Criticizes Stalin’s Policies. 24 January 1929

4 – Soviet-German Agreement on Conciliation Commission. 25 January 1929

5 – Stalin Criticizes the Bukharin Group and Recommends Punishment. Late January 1929

6 – Party Resolution. Party Condemns Bukharin Group. 9 February 1929

7 – Trotsky Defends His Actions and Blames Stalin for Exile. Letter to Workers. 29 March 1929

8 – Decree. State Increases Control Over Religion. 8 April 1929

9 – Stalin Attacks Bukharin and His Group. 22 April 1929

10 – Party Resolution. Party Plenum Censures Bukharin’s Group and Takes Measures to Prevent Deviation from the Party Line. 23 April 1929

11 – Party Resolution. Sixteenth Party Conference Approves Five Year Plan for Rapid Development of National Economy 25 April 1929

12 – Party Resolution. Party Initiates Second Purge. 29 April 1929

13 – Party Reorients Work of Trade Unions through Resolution on Socialist Competition. 9 May 1929

14 – Decree. Machine Tractor Stations as Major Force in Collectivization. 5 June 1929

15 – Militant Godless League Reinvigorated. E.M. laroslavsky’s Speech at Second All-Union Congress. 11 June 1929

16 – First Formal Soviet View of Modern Warfare. 21 June 1929

17 – Order of the Revolutionary Military Council of the USSR

18 – Field Service Regulations of 1929, First Section, Chapter I

19 – Decree. Soviet Government Empowers Local Collective Farms with Executive Powers. 21 June 1929

20 – Mikoian, Bread Rationing Introduced. 27 June 1929

21 – Soviet Government Warns of Consequences Following Chinese Raid and Seizure of Chinese Eastern Railway. 13 July 1929

22 – Party Resolution. Party Considers Military Forces Stable and Moving Toward Modernization. 15 July 1929

23 – Decree. Sundays Eliminated and the Continuous Work Week Introduced. 26 August 1929

24 – Party Resolution. Party Establishes One-Man Management in Industry. 5 September 1929

25 – Stalin Launches Socialist Offensive against Capitalist Elements: “Year of the Great Change.” 3 November 1929

26 – Soviet Military Forces Launch Successful Counterattack against Chinese Forces in Manchuria. Press Communique. 17 November 1929

27 – Party Resolution. Party Plenum Calls for Decisive Offensive against Kulaks. 17 November 1929

28 – Party Plenum Approves Collectivization and Industrialization Goals and Removes Bukharin from Politburo. Newspaper Summary. 18 November 1929

29 – Litvinov Reports That USSR Maintained International Position. 4 December 1929

30 – Decree. Party Central Committee Establishes the Enterprise as Basic Unit of Industrial Management. 5 December 1929

31 – Decree. Central Executive Committee Unifies and Centralizes Agricultural Affairs. 7 December 1929

32 – The Shock Brigade Movement. First Congress. 7 December 1929

33 – Resumption of Anglo-Soviet Relations. Exchange of Notes. 20 December 1929

34 – Pravda Glorifies Stalin on His Fiftieth Birthday. 21 December 1929

35 – Stalin, Liquidation of the Kulak as a Class. 27 December 1929

CHAPTER 2

THE YEAR 1930

36 – Party Central Committee Resolution on Increasing Rate of Collectivization. 5 January 1930

37 – Decree on Harsh Measures against Kulaks. 1 February 1930

38 – Stalin Encourages Further Extension of Collectivization. 9 February 1930

39 – Collectivization and Liquidation of the Kulak in the Countryside. 12-19 February 1930

40 – On the Liquidation of the Kulak as a Class. Top Secret Letter. 12 February 1930

41 – Top Secret Minutes of Session of Okrug Troika. 19 February 1930

42 – Stalin, “Dizzy With Success.” 2 March 1930

43 – Party Resolution. Party Central Committee Formalizes Modified Collectivization Policy. 10 March 1930

44 – Stalin Rallies Troops for Collectivization and against Kulaks. 3 April 1930

45 – Law on State Concentration Camps. 7 April 1930 217 Maiakovsky’s Suicide Letter. 12 April 1930

46 – Reaffirmation of 1926 Treaty of Berlin. Joint Soviet-German Statement. 13 June 1930

47 – Stalin’s Optimistic Report to Sixteenth Party Congress. 27 June 1930

48 – Stalin Triumphs at Sixteenth Party Congress. Observation by Louis Fischer. 22 July 1930

Elimination of Vestiges of Peasant Control in the Countryside. 23-30 July 1930

49 – Decree. On the Liquidation of the Okrugs. 23 July 1930

50 – Party Resolution. On the Reorganization of the Kolkhoz and Cooperative System. 30 July 1930

51 – Litvinov Becomes People’s Commissar for Foreign Affairs. Press Statement. 25 July 1930

52 – Party Resolution. Introduction of Compulsory Education. 25 July 1930

53 – Decree on Change from Economic to Calendar Year. 20 September 1930

54 – Decree on Measures to Meet Labor Shortage. 9 October 1930

55 – The Syrtsov-Lominadze Plot. Decision by Moscow Party Committee. 12 November 1930

56 – Maxim Gorky Declares Civil War Against Kulaks and Other Capitalist Enemies. 15 November 1930

57 – The Industrial Party Show Trial. Court Verdict. 8 December 1930

58 – Party Resolution. Party Calls for Acceleration of Five Year Plan in 1931. 17-21 December 1930

CHAPTER 3

THE YEAR 1931

59 – USSR Criticizes Disarmament Conference. Note to Foreign Governments. 12 January 1931

60 – Party Resoluton. Magnitogorsk as Symbol of Five Year Plan. 25 January 1931

61 – Stalin, Five Year Plan in Three Years. 4 February 1931

62 – Menshevik Party Show Trial. Court Verdict. 10 March 1931

63 – Litvinov on the World Economic Crisis and the European Union. Geneva, 18 May 1931

64 – Glavlit—Modification of Censorship Statute of 6 June 1922. 6 June 1931

65 – Stalin Rehabilitates Specialists and Calls for Wage Differentiation. 23 June 1931

66 – Extension of Soviet-German Agreement of 1926. Joint Protocol. 24 June 1931

67 – Party Resolution. Party Central Committee Calls for Further Increase in Collectivization. 2 August 1931

68 – Party Resolution. Party Dictates Policy for Primary and Secondary Schools. 25 August 1931

69 – Stalin Dictates Party History. Letter to Journal “Proletarskaia Revoliutsiia.” 6 November 1931

Soviet Government Gives Muted Response to Japanese Occupation of Manchuria. 14-20 November 1931

70 – Statement by Litvinov to the Japanese Ambassador in Moscow on the Soviet Attitude to the Situation in Manchuria. 14 November 1931

71 – Reply by Litvinov to the Japanese Ambassador’s Statement on the Transport of Chinese Troops on the Chinese Eastern Railway. 20 November 1931

72 – Stalin Reveals Personal Views and Past With German Biographer, Emil Ludwig. 13 December 1931

Documents by Main Topics

Glossary

Sources Cited

Acknowledgements

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Indexes

Index of Personal Names

Index of Subjects

Index of Institutions

Index of Geographic and Place Names