J. V. Stalin


THE RIGHT DEVIATION
IN THE C.P.S.U.(B.)

Delivered at the Plenum of the Central
Committee and the Central Control Comission
of the C.P.S.U.(B.) in April 1929.

(Verbatim Report)



  Pravda, No. 255,
 November 6-7, 1927



From J. V. Stalin, Problems of Leninism,
Foreign Languages Press, Peking, 1976

pp. 326-428.


Based on J. V. Stalin, Works,
Foreign Languages Publishing House,
Moscow, 1955

Vol. 12, pp. 1-113.


Prepared © for the Internet by David J. Romagnolo, djr@cruzio.com (August 1997)

The present English edition of J. V. Stalin's Problems of Leninism corresponds to the eleventh Russian edition of 1952. The English translation up to page 766 (including the relevant notes at the end of the book) is taken from Stalin's Works, Foreign Languages Publishing House, Moscow, 1953-55, Vol. 6 and Vols. 8-13, while the rest is taken from the same publishers' 1953 edition of Problems of Leninism. Minor changes have been made in the translation and the notes.

    Volume and page references to Lenin's Works made in the text are to the third Russian edition. References to English translations are added, as footnotes, by the present publisher.




THE RIGHT DEVIATION IN THE C.P.S.U.(B.). Speech Delivered at
  the Plenum of the Central Committee and the Central Control
  Commission of the C.P.S.U.(B.) in April 1929


 
326

I.
II.
III.
IV.

One Line or Two Lines?
Class Changes and Our Disagreements
Disagreements in Regard to the Comintern
Disagreements in Regard to Internal Policy

328
335
344
351

a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
f)
g)
h)
i)
j)
k)

The Class Struggle
The Intensifiaction of the Class Struggle
The Peasantry
NEP and MArket Relations
The So-called "Tribute"
The Rate of Development of Industry and the New Forms of the Bond
Bukharin as a Theoretician
A Five-Year Plan and a Two-Year Plan
The Question of the Crop Area
Grain Procurements
Foreign Currency Reserves and Grain Imports

352
359
363
367
373
379
391
401
404
407
413

V.

Question of Party Leadership

416

a)
b)
c)

The Factionalism of Bukharin's Group
Loyalty and Collective Leadership
The Fight Against the Right Deviation

417
419
424

VI.

Conclusions

427
 

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