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The organizational line on collectivization
How did Stalin and the leadership of the Bolshevik Party react to the spontaneous and violent collectivization and `dekulakization' tide?
They basically tried to lead, discipline and rectify the existing movement, both politically and practically.
The Party leadership did everything in its power to ensure that the great collectivization revolution could take place in optimal conditions and at the least cost. But it could not prevent deep antagonisms from bursting or `blowing up', given the countryside's backward state.
- The Party apparatus in the countryside
- Extraordinary organizational measures
- The 25,000
- The 25,000 against the bureaucracy
- The 25,000 against the kulaks
- The 25,000 and the organization of agricultural production
Fri Aug 25 09:03:42 PDT 1995