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cost of wages of workers and,
192
distrust of peasantry and,
558-61
effect on, of retreat from NEP in
trade and industry, 205
effect of monopolistic compe-
tition on, 276
emergency measures and, 108
exchange conditions influence
on, 136
;financial autonomy and, 278
;and forecasts of plans (to 1932),
450, 451
and grain crisis, 33-34, 114,
116, 188
See also Grain procurement
growing deterioration of (1929),
458
and imperialist attack on Soviet
Union, 419-20
and industrialization at expense
of peasantry, 408
and means of production, 98-99
NEP as policy of, 21-27, 189
1923-1924, 361-64
1924-1925, 364-74
1925-1927, 374-92
and Party, 24, 31, 32, 119, 164,
357, 358, 456, 507
price stability and, 149
and resistance of peasants
(1929), 122
scissors effect of price policy
on, 150-51
as tactical rather than strategic
necessity, 560
weakened (1939s), 594
Workers' control, 221
Working class
mass movement (1928)
ebbing, 233-34
rise of, 228-33
and Marxism, 501-8
organizational forms of,
330-54
Party and, relations of exterior-
ity, 517
See also Bolshevik Party
in private industry, 200
role of, in economic develop-
ment toward socialism, 66
role of, in management,
216-22
socialist ideas among, technol-
ogy and, 520, 521
soviets and, see Soviets
World market, gold standard and,
58-59
Yakovtsevsky, 590
Yaroslavsky, Y. M., 440, 444
"Year of Great Change, A" (Sta-
lin), 462
Zasulich, Vera, 549
Zinoviev, G., 364
policy criticisms by (1925),
369-72
policy on recruitment to Party
and, 553
rallying intelligentsia, 563-64
on the state, 544
Trotsky and, 364
in united opposition, 374-82
From Marx to Mao
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Reading Guide
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Class Struggles in the USSR: 1923-1930
CharlesBettelheim
Class
Struggles
in the
USSR
Second Period: 1923-1930
[Section 8 -- Bibliography
and Index]]
NOTE: The translation of this book into English has given the author the opportunity to check a number of his references and, as a result, to revise parts of the tex.
© 1978 by Monthly Review Press
Translated by Brian Pearce
Originally published as
Les Luttes de classes en URSS
© 1977 by Maspero/Seuil, Paris, France
Prepared © for the Internet by David J. Romagnolo,
djr@marx2mao.com (February 2001)
(Corrected and Updated January-February 2017)
Contents
[ Section 8 ]
Bibliography
595
Index
607
page 7
Key to abbreviations, initials, and Russian
words used in the text
Artel
A particular form of producers' cooperative
Batrak
Agricultural laborer
CC
Central Committee of the Party
CCC
Central Control Commission of the Party
CCTU
Central Council of the Trade Unions
Chervonets
A coin equivalent to ten gold roubles or 7.7423
grams of refined gold, issued from 1923 on
CLD
Council for Labor and Defense
CLI
Central Labor Institute
CPSU(B)
Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Bol-
sheviks)
EC
Executive Committee (of a soviet)
Elektrobank
Bank for financing electrification
Glavk
Chief Administration (usually under the direc-
tion of a People¹s Commissariat or of the
VSNKh)
Goselro
State Commission for the Electrification of
Russia
Gosbank
State bank
Gosplan
State Planning Commission
GPU
State Political Administration (political police)
Khozraschet
Financial autonomy (literally "business ac-
counting")
page 8
Kolkhoz
Collective farm (usually organized as an artel)
Kommuna
Collective farm with joint ownership of means
of production carried farther than in an artel,
and with sharing of the proceeds on the basis
of members' needs
Komsomol
Young Communist League
Kontraktatsiya
System of contracts between the peasants and
the state purchasing agencies
Kulak
A rich peasant
Kulak
A rich peasant
Kulak
A rich peasant
Mir
The village community
Narkomfin
People's Commissariat of Finance
Narkomtrud
People's Commissariat of Labor
NEP
New Economic Policy
NEP
New Economic Policy
NOT
"Scientific organization of work"
OGPU
Unified State Political Administration (succes-
sor to GPU)
Orgraspred
Department for organization and allocation of
Party cadres
Osvok
Special commission of the VSNKh for the re-
construction of fixed capital (involved in eco-
nomic planning)
PB
Political Bureau
Perekachka
Literally, ³pumping²; used for the transfer-
ence of resources from agriculture to industry;
equivalent to the concept of ³tribute² exacted
from agriculture
Podkulachnik
"Abettor of kulaks"
RSDLP
Russian Social Democratic Labor Party
RSDLP(B)
Russian Social Democratic Labor Party (Bol-
sheviks)
Proletkult
"Proletarian culture"; name of the organiza-
tion devoted to promoting this concept
Prombank
Bank for financing industry
Promfinplan
Industrial and financial plan
page 9
Rabkrin
Workers' and Peasants' Inspectorate
RKK
Commission for settling labor disputes
RSFSR
Russian Socialist Federal Soviet Republic
Serednyak
Middle peasant
Skhod
Village assembly
Skhod
Wooden plough
Sovkhoz
State farm
Sovnarkom
Council of People's Commissars
Sovznak
"Settlement note"; the currency issued under
war communism
Splochnaya
"Complete" collectivization of a given area
Supryaga
Traditional form of mutual aid among peasants
Toz
Elementary form of collective farm ("associa-
tion for joint cultivation of the soil")
Tsekombank
Bank responsible for financing municipal un-
dertakings
TsGAOR
Central Archives of the October Revolution
TsIK
Central Executive Committee of the Congress
of Soviets
Uchraspred
Section for listing and allocation of Party
cadres (replaced by Orgraspred)
Udarnik
Shock-worker
VLKSM
All-Union Leninist Communist League of
Youth, i.e., Young Communist League, or
Komsomol
VSNKh
Supreme Council of the National Economy
VTsIK
All-Union Central Executive Committee (of
the Congress of Soviets)
WPI
Workers' and Peasants' Inspectorate
page 595
Bibliography
Documents of the Bolshevik Party and of the Soviet government and
administrative bodies
1. Reports of the Bolshevik Party's congresses
X-y Syezd RKP(b), stenotche
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