Documents of Soviet History: Revolution from above, 1929-1931

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Party Dominates Academy of Sciences. News Report. 17 January 1929
Krupskaia’s Courageous Article against Rapid and Forced Collectivization.
 20 January 1929
Bukharin Criticizes Stalin’s Policies. 24 January 1929
Soviet-German Agreement on Conciliation Commission. 25 January 1929
Stalin Criticizes the Bukharin Group and Recommends Punishment. Late
 January 1929
Party Resolution. Party Condemns Bukharin Group. 9 February 1929
Trotsky Defends His Actions and Blames Stalin for Exile. Letter to Workers.
 29 March 1929
Decree. State Increases Control Over Religion. 8 April 1929
Stalin Attacks Bukharin and His Group. 22 April 1929
Party Resolution. Party Plenum Censures Bukharin’s Group and Takes
 Measures to Prevent Deviation from the Party Line. 23 April 1929
Party Resolution. Sixteenth Party Conference Approves Five Year Plan
 for Rapid Development of National Economy 25 April 1929
Party Resolution. Party Initiates Second Purge. 29 April 1929
Party Reorients Work of Trade Unions through Resolution on Socialist
 Competition. 9 May 1929
Decree. Machine Tractor Stations as Major Force in Collectivization.
 5 June 1929
Militant Godless League Reinvigorated. E.M. laroslavsky’s Speech at
 Second All-Union Congress. 11 June 1929
First Formal Soviet View of Modern Warfare. 21 June 1929
Order of the Revolutionary Military Council of the USSR
Field Service Regulations of 1929, First Section, Chapter I
Decree. Soviet Government Empowers Local Collective Farms with
 Executive Powers. 21 June 1929
Mikoian, Bread Rationing Introduced. 27 June 1929
Soviet Government Warns of Consequences Following Chinese Raid and
 Seizure of Chinese Eastern Railway. 13 July 1929
Party Resolution. Party Considers Military Forces Stable and Moving
 Toward Modernization. 15 July 1929
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 Decree. Sundays Eliminated and the Continuous Work Week Introduced.
 26 August 1929
Party Resolution. Party Establishes One-Man Management in Industry.
 5 September 1929
Stalin Launches Socialist Offensive against Capitalist Elements: “Year of
 the Great Change.” 3 November 1929
Soviet Military Forces Launch Successful Counterattack against Chinese
 Forces in Manchuria. Press Communique. 17 November 1929
Party Resolution. Party Plenum Calls for Decisive Offensive against Kulaks.
 17 November 1929
Party Plenum Approves Collectivization and Industrialization Goals and
 Removes Bukharin from Politburo. Newspaper Summary.
 18 November 1929
Litvinov Reports That USSR Maintained International Position.
 4 December 1929
Decree. Party Central Committee Establishes the Enterprise as Basic Unit of
 Industrial Management. 5 December 1929
Decree. Central Executive Committee Unifies and Centralizes Agricultural
 Affairs. 7 December 1929
The Shock Brigade Movement. First Congress. 7 December 1929
Resumption of Anglo-Soviet Relations. Exchange of Notes. 20 December 1929
Pravda Glorifies Stalin on His Fiftieth Birthday. 21 December 1929
Stalin, Liquidation of the Kulak as a Class. 27 December 1929
2 THE YEAR
Party Central Committee Resolution on Increasing Rate of Collectivization.
 5 January 1930
Decree on Harsh Measures against Kulaks. 1 February 1930
Stalin Encourages Further Extension of Collectivization. 9 February 1930
Collectivization and Liquidation of the Kulak in the Countryside.
 12-19 February 1930
On the Liquidation of the Kulak as a Class. Top Secret Letter.
 12 February 1930
Top Secret Minutes of Session of Okrug Troika. 19 February 1930
Stalin, “Dizzy With Success.” 2 March 1930
Party Resolution. Party Central Committee Formalizes Modified
 Collectivization Policy. 10 March 1930
Stalin Rallies Troops for Collectivization and against Kulaks. 3 April 1930
Law on State Concentration Camps. 7 April 1930
Maiakovsky’s Suicide Letter. 12 April 1930
Reaffirmation of 1926 Treaty of Berlin. Joint Soviet-German Statement.
 13 June 1930
Stalin’s Optimistic Report to Sixteenth Party Congress. 27 June 1930
Stalin Triumphs at Sixteenth Party Congress. Observation by Louis Fischer.
 22 July 1930
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Elimination of Vestiges of Peasant Control in the Countryside.
 23-30 July 1930
Decree. On the Liquidation of the Okrugs. 23 July 1930
Party Resolution. On the Reorganization of the Kolkhoz and Cooperative
 System. 30 July 1930
Litvinov Becomes People’s Commissar for Foreign Affairs. Press Statement.
 25 July 1930
Party Resolution. Introduction of Compulsory Education. 25 July 1930
Decree on Change from Economic to Calendar Year.20 September 1930
Decree on Measures to Meet Labor Shortage. 9 October 1930
The Syrtsov-Lominadze Plot. Decision by Moscow Party Committee.
 12 November 1930
Maxim Gorky Declares Civil War Against Kulaks and Other Capitalist
 Enemies. 15 November 1930
The Industrial Party Show Trial. Court Verdict. 8 December 1930
Party Resolution. Party Calls for Acceleration of Five Year Plan in 1931.
 17-21 December 1930
3 THE YEAR
USSR Criticizes Disarmament Conference. Note to Foreign Governments.
 12 January 1931
Party Resoluton. Magnitogorsk as Symbol of Five Year Plan. 25 January 1931
Stalin, Five Year Plan in Three Years. 4 February 1931
Menshevik Party Show Trial. Court Verdict. 10 March 1931
Litvinov on the World Economic Crisis and the European Union. Geneva,
 18 May 1931
Glavlit—Modification of Censorship Statute of 6 June 1922. 6 June 1931
Stalin Rehabilitates Specialists and Calls for Wage Differentiation.
 23 June 1931
Extension of Soviet-German Agreement of 1926. Joint Protocol. 24 June 1931
Party Resolution. Party Central Committee Calls for Further Increase in
 Collectivization. 2 August 1931
Party Resolution. Party Dictates Policy for Primary and Secondary Schools.
 25 August 1931
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
Statement by Litvinov to the Japanese Ambassador in Moscow on the
 Soviet Attitude to the Situation in Manchuria. 14 November 1931
Reply by Litvinov to the Japanese Ambassador’s Statement on the
 Transport of Chinese Troops on the Chinese Eastern Railway.
 20 November 1931
Stalin Reveals Personal Views and Past With German Biographer, Emil
 Ludwig. 13 December 1931
viii PREFACE
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