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Absenteeism, see Labor disci-pline
 Accounting, 50
 Accumulation
 characteristics of relations
 between classes and
 domination of expanded
 reproduction by demands
 of, 308-15
 decisive role to, in develop-
 ment of industrial pro-
 duction, 388
 expanded reproduction and,
 306-8
 maximum, Party ideology and,
 506-7
 optimum rate of, 383, 385
 planning and allocation of ac-
 cumulated capital,
 75-76
 See also Planning
 primitive socialist, 367, 374
 recourse to, 321-23
 Stalin support for idea of,
 401
 problems of, and evolution of
 peasant consumption,
 153-58
 process of, 305-6
 Actual occupation criterion, 335
 Administrative apparatus
 in collectivization drive, 464
 
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  criticized (1925), 370fight against bureaucratization
 of, 435-39
 See also Bureaucracy
 intelligentsia in, 565-66
 Party members in, 335, 339
 Right deviation and, 422, 423
 role of, in orienting produc-
 tion, 281
 large-scale industry favored
 by, 202, 203
 See also Industrialization;
 Planning
 and soviets, 348-49
 in rural soviets, 170-71
 See also Experts; Management
 "Against Vulgarizing The Slogan
 of Self-Criticism" (Sta-
 lin), 230-31
 Agrarian Code (1922), 87, 118,
 154, 174-75
 Agrarian policy, see Agriculture;
 Collectivization
 Agricultural Bank, 63
 Agricultural laborers (batraki )
 attempt to organize, 41
 composition, 97
 use of, by peasants, 154-55,
 369
 Agricultural machinery, 92, 378
 exchange relations and, in
 NEP period, 138
 
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Agricultural machinery (cont.)expanded production with, 416
 in grain procurement crisis, 89
 and ideological changes,
 519-20
 operators of, 560
 for reconstructing agriculture,
 429-31
 See also Collectivization
 Agricultural production
 crisis in (1930s), 108
 and drawing up of plans,
      384-85
 increase in, over prewar figure
 (to 1932), 448
 from individual farms, in NEP
 period, 85
 industrialization and fall in
 (1929), 110
 NEP dooming, 589-90
 1921-1922 and 1926-1927, 28
 1925-1926 gross, 103
 possible by collective means,
 455
 rich peasants and, 368
 See also Agricultural machin-
 ery; and entries begin-
 ning with term: Grain
 Agricultural products
 conversion of, into money,
 140-42
 gold-backed currency and ex-
 ports of, 58
 See also Exports
 price rise in (1929-1930),
 68-69
 Agriculture
 as basis for industrial de-
 velopment, see Indus-
 trialization
 collective farms, 181, 473
 
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   aid given cooperative and,105-7
 See also Collectivization
 degree of restoration of pro-
 ductive forces in (1925),
 26
 disadvantageous terms of trade
 for, 74
 individual farms, 85, 86
 land and, see Land
 policy on
 aggravation of contradictions
 through peasant and
 (1928-1929), 107-28
 and agriculture as basis for
 development of indus-
 try, 377, 383-84, 409,
 410, 448, 477, 556
 collectivization policy and
 industrialization,
 592-93
 Party role in, 357-58
 Party fight over policy,
 398-403
 shortcomings of (1924-
 1927), 102-3
 at Sixteenth Conference,
 454-59
 prices, see Prices
 production relations in,
 135-62
 technology and reconstruction
 of, 415-18, 429-31
 See also Agricultural
 machinery; Collectivi-
 zation; Grain procure-
 ment; Industrialization
 All-Union Central Executive
 Committee (VTsIK),
 347-48, 355
 All-union trusts, 271
 
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  See also Financial autonomyAndreyev, A., 244, 375, 402
 Annenkov, Pavel, 514, 515
 Appropriation, planning and
 process of, 74
 Authoritarianism, as class at-
 titude, 170
 
 
 Balance of payments, grain pro-
 curement and, 34
 Balance of trade, 1926-1929, 114
 Bank financing electrification
 (Elektrobank), 63
 Bank for industry (Prombank), 63
 Banking system, 62-67
 illusions connected with
 functioning of, 63-67
 Barter, state-peasant, 53-54
 Batraki, see Agricultural laborers
 Bazarov, V., 279
 Bebel, A., 524
 Bednyaki, see Poor peasants
 Bogdanov, A. A., 510, 538
 Bolotnikov (peasant), 559
 Bolshevik (journal), 65
 Bolshevik Party, 312, 331-42
 and contradictions between
 state and private sector,
 197
 dictatorship of proletariat and,
 see Dictatorship of pro-
 letariat
 and financial autonomy, 272
 formation and transformation
 of ideology of, 500-87
 effects of development of
 internal contradictions,
 534-66
 internal contradictions,
 508-34
 
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  gold standard and, 58-59in grain procurement crisis, 38,
 40-41, 90
 emergency measures,38-42
 grain balance and, 111
 See also Grain procurement
 ideological and political rela-
 tions within, 355-59
 See also Industrialization;
 Worker-peasant alliance
 illusions of, on control of
 economy, 65-66
 illusions of, on development of
 economy, 66-67
 management and
 and experts in banking sys-
 tem, 63
 and high salaries for mana-
 gers, 211
 noninterference of, 234-35
 and relations between man-
 agers and workers, 215
 and mass movement of 1928,
 228-34
 membership of
 bourgeoisie in, 333, 336,
 341-42
 goal of proletarianizing,
 331-34
 percent of peasants (1927-
 1929), 165
 policy of recruitment,
 553-55
 recruitment, 562-63
 working class, 334-35
 NEP and, 25-27, 49, 205
 organizing peasants within
 framework of, 99
 peasantry and, see Peasantry
 planning organs and, 79, 80
 See also Planning
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Bolshevik Party (cont.)prices and
 effect of price policy on,
 139-40
 ideological conception of
 price, wages and profit
 in, 285-86, 288
 price policy of, 36-37,
 150-51
 production relations in
 "socialist sector," 212
 relations with working class,
 215, 334-41
 piece wages and, 242-45
 and role of trade unions, 343
 as vanguard, 317
 wage  differentials,  249-50
 See also Trade unions;
 Working class
 in Smolensk affair, 223-35
 social composition of, 335-37
 as new bourgeoisie, 226-27
 soviets and, 346-49, 367
 rural soviets and, 167-73
 splitting over worker-peasant
 alliance, 119
 See also Worker-peasant al-
 liance
 suspicious of egalitarian no-
 tions, 179-80
 and unemployment
 analysis of causes of, 295-98
 measures to deal with, 298
 301
 weak control by, of monetary
 and financial systems
 (until 1925), 67-68
 See also Central Committee;
 Central Control Com-
 mission; Political
 Bureau; Secretariat
 
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Bolshevism, 501, 504, 506reduced ability to use Marxism
 to analyze reality, 535
 See also Bolshevik Party
 Bonuses, financial autonomy and
 wage, 270
 Bourgeois functions, 310-13
 See also Management
 Bourgeoisie
 characteristics of, 552
 Chinese, 379
 defeat of, 594
 ideology of, 181-83
 intelligentsia and, 565
 intensification of class struggle
 with, 427
 modified forms of relations be-
 tween other classes and,
 317-18
 monolithism serving, 540-41
 and nature of Soviet state, 429
 in Party membership, 333, 336,
 341-42
 Party as new, 226-27
 proletariat and, in NEP period,
 32, 33, 205-6
 rural, see Rich peasants
 state ownership and expropria-
 tion of, 527
 in state-owned enterprises,
 528
 See also Experts; Management
 Budget
 control of (1925), 59
 gold-backed currency and, 58
 growth of expenditures,
 388-89
 1921-1922, 55
 restoration of balanced system
 of, 62
 Bukharin, N. I., 364
 
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  final defeat of, 459and kulaks, 119, 155-56, 369,
 382, 383
 on light and heavy industry,
 385
 and new line, 116, 371, 373,
 374, 392, 398-411,
 418-35
 and united opposition, 377
 view of world situation by
 (1928), 404-6
 working class character of state
 and, 553
 Bureau of Labor Statistics, 68
 Bureaucracy
 bureaucratization, 423-24
 fight against, 191, 224-25,
 435-37, 440-42, 454
 Marx on, 525
 organization of supervision by
 masses, 437-39
 restricting, not abolishing, 526
 See also Administrative ap-
 paratus; Experts; Man-
 agement
 
 
 Capital
 Lenin on, 211
 planning and allocation of ac-
 cumulated, 75-76
 rural craftsmen and private,
 144
 shortage of, 297, 373
 state ownership function as
 collective, 291
 valorization of
 industrial employment and
 unemployment and,
 293, 302
 labor power and, 304-5
 
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  maintenance of demands ofprocess of, 320-21
 See also Financial autonomy
 Capital (Marx), 22, 67, 237, 408,
 515, 548
 Capitalism
 crisis of (late 1920s), 404-5
 evolutionist view of history
 and restoration of, 550
 exploitation under, 237-38
 industrialization to avoid,
 366-67
 main base of, smashed, 471-72
 See also Rich peasants
 producing means of produc-
 tion under, 414
 and "Right danger" in Party,
 406-7
 See also Accumulation
 Capitalist character
 of plans, 289-90
 of relations of production,
 266-67
 Capitalist development
 NEP as road of, 25, 26
 planning organs and, 73
 of productive forces, 314-19
 Capitalist relations, 49, 50
 Marx on, 516
 planning principle and, 73,
 288-90, 529-34
 unemployment and, 301-2
 See also Accumulation
 CC, see Central Committee
 CCC, see Central Control Com-
 mission
 Central Committee (CC), 355,
 364
 authority shifted out of, 400,
 424, 459
 on banking system (1924), 64
 
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Central Committee (cont.)Chinese question and, 379
 CLI and, 240, 241
 condemns Trotsky, 365
 "criticism" movement of 1928,
 222
 decision of, on planning (Aug.
 1927), 79
 decision on collectivization
 (1930), 468, 470, 471
 depriving Gosbank and Nar-
 komfin of control over
 budgetary policy, 59
 economic planning, banking
 system and (1927), 65
 and grain procurement crisis,
 40
 coercive measures to meet
 grain quotas, 125
 and 1929 grain procurement,
 123
 kulak question and (1929),
 465-66
 labor discipline sought by, 234
 calls for stricter labor disci-
 pline (1929), 452-53
 and mass recruitment, 333
 membership of (1926), 372
 NEP and, 25
 and new line (1928-1929), 401,
 412-413, 425-47
 1925 resolution on leasing
 land, and wage relations
 in agriculture, 154
 and one-man management, 236
 and piece wages, 213, 242-43
 and platform of the 46, 362, 363
 production conferences and
 (1925), 218
 resolution on economic tasks
 (Apr. 1925), 369
 resolution on production con-
 ferences, 217
 
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  resolution on rationalization(1927), 214
 resolution on trade (1927), 204
 on revolution from above, 523
 rural soviets and, 167, 168
 and tribute from peasantry, 403
 Trotsky and Zinoviev removed
 from, 381
 and united opposition, 376,
 380
 Central Committee of the
 Woodworkers' Union,
 344
 Central Control Commission
 (CCC), 224, 364, 439
 and new line (1928-1929),
 425-27
 in purge of Party, 443, 444
 Central Executive Committee of
 the Congress of Soviets,
 (TsIK), 118
 Central Labor Institute (CLI),
 239-41
 Central Statistical Board, 88, 89
 Central Trades Union Council,
 235-36, 239, 246, 345
 production conferences and,
 218-21
 and socialist emulation, 254
 Chaplin, N., 240
 Chauvinism, Great-Russian,
 565-66
 Chervonets roubles, 57, 60
 Chiang Kai-shek, 379
 China, 227, 312, 416
 Chinese Communist Party, 316,
 379, 536
 Chinese revolution, 379, 380
 Circular No. 33 (March 1926;
 "The Organization of
 the Management of In-
 dustrial Establish-
 ment"), 226
 
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Circulation, role of kulaks in,89-91
 Civil Code (1922), 270
 Civil personality of enterprises,
 270
 Civil War in France, The (Marx),
 524-25
 Class relations, see specific
 classes
 Class struggle, 427-28, 508-9
 in Party ideology, 510
 Stalin's view of, 512, 513
 See also Dictatorship of pro-
 letariat; and specific
 classes
 Class Struggles in France, The
 (Marx), 527
 CLD (Council of Labor and De-
 fense), 78, 268
 CLI (Central Labor Institute),
 239-41
 Collective agreements, 242, 373
 planning and, 245-47
 trade union role in, 343
 Collective farms, see Agricul-
 ture; Collectivization
 Collective forms
 building, of production and
 distribution, 66
 peasants and craftsmen in
 (1924-1928), 85
 of cultivation, 100-1
 of labor and production, 180,
 181
 Collective ownership, transform-
 ing state ownership into,
 of means of production,
 291
 Collectivization, 321
 area of cultivation possible
 under, 100-1, 455
 economistic interpretation of
 grain crisis, 187
 
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  mechanization and, 429-31policy on, 110-11, 383
 central role of state in, 526
 collectivization from above,
 42, 523
 developing policy on,
 420-22
 great change in, 46-78,
 590-93
 new line, 413, 415-18
 Sixteenth Party Conference
 and, 454-59
 qualitative aspects of, 472-74
 quantitative aspects of, 472
 rural cells of Party and, 165-66
 socialist ideas and, 519-20
 solving procurement problems
 and, 126
 Stalin on, 382, 462, 464, 468-
 70, 472
 technical superiority of, 398
 as voluntary act, 403, 418, 461
 Comintern, 376, 379-80, 405-6,
 425, 426, 501, 535-36,
 561
 Commercial units, number of,
 204
 Commissariats, see entries
 beginning with term:
 People's
 Commission for settling labor
 disputes (RKK), 344
 Commodity character of produc-
 tion and circulation, 210
 Commodity exchange, develop-
 ment of, 29-30
 Commodity production
 of grain, in NEP period, 85
 reconstituting, 54
 Commodity relations, 49
 between enterprises, and rela-
 tions in production pro-
 cess, 266-67
 
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Commodity relations (cont.)financial autonomy and, 269
 Party treatment of contradic-
 tions in forms of, 529-34
 planning and, 288
 Communist Manifesto (Marx and
 Engels), 552
 Communist Saturdays, 252
 Competition, socialist emulation
 as, 253-54
 "Concerning Questions of Agra-
 rian Policy in the
 U.S.S.R." (Stalin), 519
 Congress of Soviets (1922), 274
 Congress of Soviets (1927), 249
 Consultative Council, 276
 Consumer goods
 decline in investments in in-
 dustries producing, 387
 industrial investment policy
 and, 390-91
 production of, 29
 See also Agricultural
 machinery
 Contracts purchase, 148, 150
 Contribution to the Critique of
 Political Economy
 (Marx), 510, 515
 Control from below, 222-36,
 230-31
 Control commissions (local Party
 organs), 440
 in purge of Party, 443, 444
 rank-and-file, 436
 Convention prices, 148, 149
 Cooperation, aid given to foster,
 105-7
 Cooperative industry
 evolution of, 199-203
 ownership of, 199
 Cooperatives (and cooperative
 societies)
 
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 craftsmen in, 144credit, 63
 expulsion from, for failure to
 meet grain require-
 ments, 124
 NEP and, 24
 percent of peasants in (1927),
 107
 socialism and entire peasantry
 in, 24
 workers', 312
 Cost of living, grain prices affect-
 ing,149
 Council of Labor and Defence
 (CLD), 78, 268
 Council of People's Commissars
 (Sovnarkom), 234,
 452-53
 Gosplan and, 78
 introduces financial autonomy,
 268
 small-scale industry and, 201
 Council of syndicates, 276
 Credit
 agricultural tools and system
 of, 102
 banking system and, 64
 gold-backed currency and, 58
 policy on, and return to paper
 currency, 60
 promoting state-sector ac-
 cumulation through ex-
 pansion of, 156
 See also Loans
 Cultural revolution, 222, 227,
 422
 Currency, 50
 balanced budget and stabiliza-
 tion of, 62
 confidence in, 68
 conversion of agricultural pro-
 duce into, 140-42
 
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 | 
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  depreciation of, 55-57and illusions of "war com-
 munism," 54-55
 inflation of, to promote state-
 sector accumulation, 156
 issuing of, 63
 return to (1926) paper, 29, 54,
 60-61
 under "war communism," 53
 See also Monetary system; and
 specific monetary units
 
 
 Darwinism, 550
 Death rate, fall in (1924-1927),
 32
 Declaration of the Eighty-three,
 380
 Declaration of the Thirteen, 375,
 376
 Democratic centralism, 356-58,
 363-64, 370, 371, 378,
 476-77, 507
 monolithic principle and,
 539-40
 Democratic Centralism (group),
 443
 Demonstrations, 344
 Deniken, A. I., 561
 Dialectical and Historical Mate-
 rialism (Stalin), 509-10,
     513, 516, 538
 Dialectical materialism, trans-
 formed, 536-48
 Dictatorship of proletariat
 bourgeoisie subordinated to,
 318
 class struggle as leading to, 509
 and disappearance of pro-
 letariat, 316-17
 and intensification of class
 struggle (1929), 427-28
 NEP as form of, 22
 
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  Party as instrument of, 32, 543See also Bolshevik Party
 peasant support to consolidate,
 103
 monolithism and peasant
 opposition to, 541
 percent of peasants in Party
 and, 167
 perfect unity weakening, 540
 planning under, 289-90
 planning apparatus and, 50
 and question of the state,
 524-25
 as dictatorship of the state,
 544
 and relations of production, 266
 and rising wages, 314
 and socialization of produc-
 tion, 210
 state capitalism under, 291
 state ownership under, 528
 worker-peasant alliance and,
 42, 358
 See also Worker-peasant al-
 liance
 Discipline
 Party, 424
 See also Labor discipline
 Distribution, planning and pro-
 cess of, 74
 See also Planning
 Division of labor, and allocation
 of capital, 75
 "Dizzy with Success" (Stalin),
 468, 470, 472
 Doctors, increase in numbers of
 (1913-1928), 321
 Dzerzhinsky, F., 219-20, 375,
 386-87
 
 
 Economic organs, decisive role
 of, as illusion, 66
 
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Economic organs (cont.)See also specific economic or-
 gans
 Economic planning, see Plan-
 ning
 Economic policy, NEP as, 24-30
 See also New Economic Policy
 Economic relations, Party role
 in transforming, 66
 Economist-technicist conception
 of productive forces, 508-19
 quantity and, 533-34
 Economy, see specific aspects of
 economy
 Education, student population,
 increase in, 31
 Egalitarianism
 Party suspicious of, 179-80
 wage differentials and, 249-50
 18th Brumaire, The (Marx), 527
 Eighth Congress of the Trade
 Unions (1928), 233, 235,
 249-50, 344, 453
 Eighth Komsomol Congress
 (1928), 223, 224, 249
 Electrification, 62, 77, 201
 Eleventh Party Conference
 (1921), 56
 Eleventh Party Congress (1922),
 23, 35, 316-18, 332
 Elektrobank (bank financing
 electrification), 63
 Elleinstein, J., 591
 Employment
 percent increase in (1927), 391
 wages, profits and evolution of,
 293-301
 See also Unemployment
 Engels, Friedrich, 420, 514, 523,
 524, 551
 Equipment
 obsolete, 311-12
 
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  See also Agricultural machin-ery; Technology
 Evolutionism, Marxism as,
 548-50
 Exchange
 analyzing social conditions of,
 136
 constraints on, 136-39
 effect of price policy on social
 conditions of, 139-40
 evolution of, of agricultural
 produce, 140-42
 foreign
 and gold-backed currency,
 58
 grain export for, 34
 participants forced into,
 141-42
 town and country, during NEP
 period, 29-30
 Exchange rate
 currency stability and legal, 61
 maintaining rouble, gold
 backed currency and, 58
 maintaining parity, 59-60
 Exchange value, planning with
 money and predomi-
 nance of, over use value,
 433
 Executive Committee of Comin-
 tern, 376, 379-80
 Experts
 currency reform and (1924), 59
 economist-technicist concep-
 tion of productive
 forces, 508-19
 quantity and, 533-34
 in new banking system, 63
 of Osvok, 80
 and Party suspicious of egali-
 tarian notions, 180
 of planning organs, 78
 
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   See also Planning; and spe-cific planning organs
 planning principle strengthen-
 ing, 532
 role of, in Party ideology,
 555-58
 technology and importance of,
 518, 519
 training of, 226-28
 and working-class origins,
 554-55
 Exploitation, 95, 99, 237-38,
 288, 319, 377, 428-29
 Exports
 gold-backed currency and pol-
 icy on, 58
 grain, 111, 113-14, 205
 grain production fall and
 (1929), 110
 1926-1928, 113, 114
 Extractive industry, production
 in, 29
 
 
 Farms, see Agriculture
 February 4, 1924, decree of,
 57-58
 Feldman, G., 280
 Fideism, 510
 Fiduciary circulation, rise in
 (1928-1930), 69
 Fifteenth Party Conference
 (1926), 106, 220, 221,
 301, 376-78
 Fifteenth Party Congress (1927),
 36, 39, 86-87, 103, 105,
 106, 144, 175, 176, 192,
 204, 213, 221-23, 226,
 301, 336, 374-76, 378
 86, 391, 392
 Fifth All-Union Congress of
 Soviets, 448-52
 Fifth Komsomol Conference, 249
 
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Financial autonomy (businessaccounting; Khozras-
 chet ), 267-841
 development of, 268-76
 of enterprises, 242
 restricting effects of, 320
 and state planning, 277-83
 unemployment and, 294
 Financial illusions, planning
 principle and, 532-33
 Financial policy, and return to
 paper currency, 60
 Financial system, weak degree
 control of, 67-69
 Fines for nondelivery of grain,
 124
 First Five-Year Plan, 122, 235,
 241, 251-52, 254, 255,
 319-21, 383, 418, 566
 collectivization and, 460
 and labor discipline, 453
 ;  large-scale industry under,
 447
 and machinery of state, 436
 resolution on, at Sixteenth
 Party Conference,
 448-52
 Fiscal revenue, centralization
 of, 30
 Food supply, 228
 effect of, on rupture of
 worker-peasant alliance,
 42
 after 1927, 113
 peasant consumption of
 (1926-1927), 112
 Ford, Henry, 240
 Foreign concessions, 199-203
 Foreign exchange
 and gold-backed currency, 58
 grain export for, 34
 Foreign trade, see Exports; Im-
 ports
 
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Fourteenth All-Russia Congressof Soviets (1929), 176
 Fourteenth Congress of Soviets
 (1927), 175
 Fourteenth Party Conference
 (1925),164, 169, 217,
 218, 243
 Fourteenth Party Congress
 (1925), 243, 244, 302,
 333, 338, 365-76, 528,
 554
 Fourth Congress of the Comin-
 tern (1922), 277
 Fourth Congress of Soviets
 (1927), 296
 Free market, 29, 473-74
 Frumkin, 399-400
 
 
 Gastev, A., 239, 240
 General Secretary, see Stalin,
 Joseph
 Geneticist conception of de-
 velopment, 279
 German Ideology, The (Marx),
 514
 Gold roubles, calculations in (as
 of March 1922), 56
 Gold standard
 abandoned, 59-60, 68
 effects of adopting, 56-60
 political implications of aban-
 doned, 60-61
 Goods famine, 68, 69, 152-53
 Goods-roubles, 55, 56
 Gorky, Maxim, 558-59, 561, 563,
 564, 566
 Gosbank (state bank), 77, 78,
 269, 274
 in banking system, 63
 and gold-backed currency, 58
 
 |  
 | 
  and monetary reform, 56, 57,59-60
 reopened, 55-56
 Goselro (State Commission for
 the Electrification of
 Russia), 77, 78
 Gosplan, see State Planning
 Commission
 Gotha Program, 552
 GPU (State Political Administra-
 tion), 466
 Grain
 class differentiation of peas-
 antry and market supply
 of, 88-89
 prices of, stability as goal, 149
 supplying, to towns, 33
 total marketed, 1924-1925
 compared with 1913
 Grain balance, problem of,
 111-13
 Grain exports, see Exports
 Grain harvest
 collectivization and fall in (af-
 ter 1931), 111
 fall in (1929), 110
 1925-1926, 95
 1926-1927, 28
 1926-1928, 37, 91
 1927-1928, 93, 94
 1931 estimate, 104
 Grain procurement, 66
 agricultural policy and (1927-
 1928),101-7
 crisis in, 37-38, 42, 101-2, 110
 basis of, 188
 chief effects of, and
 emergency measures,
 109
 class foundation of crisis
 (1927-1928), 91-94
 
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 | 
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   economic imbalances andpolitical mistakes ex-
 plaining, 403
 economistic interpretation
 of, 187
 effect of pricing scissors,
 153
 effects on class relations in
 countryside, 114-15
 emergency measures, 38-42,
 108
 as error of policy, 399
 as kulak strike, see Rich
 peasants
 relations between classes
 and, 431-33
 Stalin's view of emergency
 measures,115-16
 and state of worker-peasant
 alliance, 33-44
 fall in (1929), 123, 124
 and fall in production, 109-10
 gap in, and market prices for
 grain, 149-50
 ideological conflict in Party
 and, 386
 industrialization in conflict
 with, 114
 lack of change in agricultural
 policy and, 107-8
 and means of production,
 94-99
 1928-1929, 120-26
 resistance to measures of,
 121-26
 and Right deviation (1929),
 426-47
 and tempo of industrialization,
 401
 tonnage of (1926-1927), 37
 Grain production
 collectivization, 462
 
 |  
 | 
  decline in (1928), and renewal ofemergency measures, 109-11
 fall of, worker-peasant alliance
 rupture and, 42
 in NEP period, 85
 price policy unfavorable to, 149,
 151-52
 Grain reserves
 exhaustion of, 110
 inadequate (1926-1928), 93, 94
 Great Britain, 276
 Groman, V., 279
 Grosskopf, S., 88, 91, 157
 Group of 15, 378-79
 Grundrisse (Marx), 49, 290
 
 
 Handicrafts, 143-45, 200-2
 Hero of Labor (decree July 27,
 1927), 252
 History of the C.P.S.U.(B.), 523,
 589
 "How to Organize Competi-
 tion?" (Lenin), 253
 
 
 Idealism, philosophical, 549, 550
 Imports of industrial goods,
 113-14
 Incentives, material, 452-54
 Income
 percentage increase in cash
 (1926-1927), 190
 See also National income
 Income distribution among peas-
 ants, 112
 India, 380
 Industrial accidents, labor pro-
 ductivity and, 243
 Industrial goods
 agricultural surplus and de-
 mand for, 157-58
 
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Industrial goods (cont.)gap between rural and urban
 consumption of, 156-57
 grain crisis and available, 93
 supply of, to peasantry, 142-47
 See also Agricultural
 machinery
 unavailable to peasants, 95
 Industrial production
 1921-1922 and 1926-1927,
 28-29
 1925-1928, 158
 1926-1927, 200
 percent of, under state and
 cooperative sector, 32
 planned increase in (1929-
 1930), 458
 Industrial sector, capital alloca-
 tion and state-owned, 75
 See also Investment
 Industrial trusts
 organization of, 271
 See also Financial autonomy
 Industrialization
 to avoid capitalism, 366-67
 central role of state in, 526
 effect on, of introducing sys-
 tem of financial
 autonomy, 273-74
 gold standard and, 58-60
 ideological conception of, 520,
 521
 importance of, 373-74
 inflation and, 194-95
 labor discipline and acceler-
 ated, 234-37
 launching of, 113-14
 mechanization and, 431
 new line on (1928), 413-15
 and Party ideology, 357-58,
 398-499, 507-8, 565-66
 
 |  
 | 
   clashes in early 1928, 398403
 contradiction between in-
 dustrial and agricultural
 policy, and the great
 change, 457-60
 deepening split in summer
 1928, 403-18
 great change at end of 1929,
 460-78
 open split, 418-33
 Sixteenth Party Conference,
 433-57
 peasantry and
 emphasis on industrializa-
 tion at expense of, 362,
 399-401, 409
 great change and, 457-60
 resistance of peasantry and
 accelerated, 122-23
 tribute to finance industry,
 297, 401, 403, 421, 422,
 428-29, 477, 507, 592
 See also Agriculture, policy
 on
 planning and, 320
 See also Planning
 policy on (1927), 382-83
 production conferences and,
 218-23
 as solution to unemployment,
 301
 See also Unemployment
 Taylorism and socialist emula-
 tion, 237-57
 trade union role in, 345
 united opposition and rapid,
 374-82
 VSNKh role in, 77
 worker-peasant alliance and,
 119-20
 
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   See also Worker-peasant al-liance
 "Industrialization of the Country
 and the Right Deviation
 in the C.P.S.U.(B)" (Sta-
 lin), 413
 Industry
 categories of price, wages, and
 profit in, see Prices;
 Profits; Wages
 contradiction between private
 and state sectors in,
 197-208
 evolution of, 199-203
 expenditures on (1923-1928),
 62
 financial autonomy of, see Fi-
     ;nancial autonomy
 forms and evolution of forms of
 ownership in, 199-203
 growth of large-scale (1929-
 1932), 447
 inflation and decrease of pro-
 duction in, 193
 integrated in overall process of
 reproduction of produc-
 tion conditions, 266-68
 investment in, see Investment
 management forms in,
 210-13
 See also Management
 NEP in conflict with planning
 in, 206-7
 ownership of, 199
 percent of value of production
 by large-scale (1926-
 1927), 209
 private and rural handicrafts,
 143-45
 selling price and cost of pro-
 duction in, 189-92
 
 |  
 | 
  small-scale industry vs. state,202
 wages and productivity of
 labor in, 192-93
 Inflation
 1922, 55
 1925-1927, 63
 1926-1929, 388-89
 origins of process of, 193-95
 Instruments of production, 513,
 516
 See also Means of production
 Intellectuals
 alliance of workers and, and
 rallying of old intel-
 ligentsia, 561-65
 new intelligentsia, 565-66
 Investment
 changes in financial autonomy
 and nature of, 280
 industrial, 388, 407-11
 maximum, as policy, 413-15,
 417-18, 420, 422-23
 1927 and 1929, 447
 plans for (1926-1927 on),
 386-88
 total (1926), 387
 job creation and, 296, 297
 origins of inflation in, 193-94
 overall plan of, 320
 profitability and, 305, 313-14
 See also Profits
 programs of, 30
 in reconstruction period, 556
 Izvestiya (magazine), 366
 
 
 June 8,1927, decree of, 78-79
 Juridical forms of ownership,
 production relations
 and, 527-29
 
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Juridico-political interventions,planning as, 73
 
 
 Kaganovich, L. M., 120, 235-36,
 362, 375, 402
 Kalashnikov, 181-82
 Kalinin, M. I., 172, 365, 372, 382
 Kamenev, L. B., 64, 88-89, 96,
 369
 and new line (1928-1929), 421,
 424
 policy criticisms by (1925),
 370, 372
 policy on recruitment to Party
 and, 553
 and Right deviation, 412
 Trotsky attacked by, 364-65
 in united opposition, 374-82
 Kerzhentsev, 240
 Kezelev, 454
 Khozraschet, see Financial au-
 tonomy
 Kirov, S. M., 295, 372, 375
 Kolchak, 561
 Kolkhoz system, 108, 111, 461-
 62, 464
 entry of peasants into, 42
 in NEP period, 85
 See also Collectivization
 Komnezamy (poor peasants'
 committees), 100, 124
 Komsomol, 251, 252
 Komsomolskaya Pravda (news-
 paper), 454
 Kravel, I., 453
 Kronstadt rebellion, 346, 541
 Krupskaya, Nadezhda, 370, 377,
 420-21, 459
 Krzhizhanovsky, G. M., 64, 78
 Kuibyshev, V. V., 59, 65, 214,
 232, 235, 312, 389
 
 |  
 | 
  line supported by, 392and new line (1928), 398,
 407-8
 on NOT, 557
 on plans, 280
 and unrealism of plans, 451
 Kulak threat (1928-1929), 102
 Kulaki, see Rich peasants
 Kulaks' strike, 88-90, 96, 101
 Kuomintang, 379
 
 
 Labor Code, 299
 Labor discipline, 213-15, 220,
 221, 229
 and forecasts of plan (to 1932),
 452-54
 imposed from above, 234-37
 piece work and, 244
 predominant form of, 314-15
 Stalin on (1928), 231
 and unemployment, 312-13
 Labor disputes
 settling, 344
 See also Collective agree-
 ments
 Labor exchange statistics, 294-
 95
 Labor exchanges, 298, 299, 453
 Labor force, and illusions of
 "war communism" period,
 267-68
 Labor market, regulating, 298,
 299
 Labor productivity, 221
 and discipline, 453, 454
 piece wages to increase, 242-
 43
 and plan forecasts, 451-52
 planned increase in (to 1932),
 449
 planning organs and, 246-47
 
 | 
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 | 
| 
  shorter work day and, 228socialist emulation and,
 251-57
 wages and, 192-93, 213, 390
 See also Wages
 trade union role in, 343, 345
 work norms and need to raise,
 214
 Labor time, immediate, 49
 Land
 area under cultivation, 462
 collective forms of cultiva-
 tion, 100-1, 455
 sowable (1924-1925), 97
 changes in possession and dis-
 tribution of (1928), 118
 division of, among families,
 180
 land shortage, 296, 297, 300-1
 rural overpopulation and
 colonization of new,
 296, 297
 leasing of, 96-97
 extending rights, 368, 369
 right to lease, 154, 155
 nationalization of, 87, 95
 Land associations, small-scale
 industry under, 201
 Land community, 174-76
 Lapidus, I., 212, 241, 274, 286
 88, 292, 302, 307, 315
 Larin, Yuri, 144, 369
 Lashevich, M., 375
 Lassalle, F., 22, 551
 Lassallism, 503
 "'Law of Primitive Socialist Ac-
 cumulation,' or Why
 We Should Not Replace
 Lenin by Preobrazhen-
 sky" (Bukharin), 374
 
 |  
 | 
League of Time (organization),240
 Left opposition, polarization in
 agriculture, theses of,
 86-87
 Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich, 57, 361,
 459
 appeal to authority of, 235
 and bourgeois labor parties,
 331
 and bureaucratization, 303,
 424
 cooperation as form leading to
 socialist organization of
 production in view of,
 105-6
 and development of revolution-
 ary ideas by masses, 522
 on dialectics, 537, 538
 on dictatorship of proletariat,
 22-23
 and disappearance of prole-
 tariat, 316
 on economic development,
 277, 278
 on economics turning into
 politics, 109
 on financial autonomy, 271-72,
 274
 Great-Russian chauvinism
 and, 566
 internal contradictions in de-
 velopment as viewed
 by, 509-10
 and large-scale industry, 202
 Marxism and
 on Marx's theory, 22, 502
 on Marxism, 505
 struggles to transform Marx-
 ism, 503-4
 
 | 
| 
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 | 
| 
Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich (cont.)need to return to principles of
 Commune, 526
 NEP and, 49, 99, 153
 and NEP as worker-peasant
 alliance, 22-24
 as road to socialism, 66
 on small-scale industry,
 200-1, 555
 and one-man management,
 211, 288
 Party and
 on class base of Party, 540
 Party function and, 356
 on Party membership, 332-
 33, 336, 341
 and transformation of, 331,
 332
 union between Party and
 theory in view of, 546
 peasantry and
 on abuse of middle peasants,
 125
 on aid to peasants, 98-99
 and classification of farms,
 87
 collective farming and, 420,
 422
 collectivization and, 470
 organizing peasants within
 framework of NEP, 99
 on peasant opposition
 (1920), 541
 peasant soviets and, 380
 on productivity of small
 peasants, 137
 supplying peasants with
 means of production in
 view of, 430
 plans and
 planning organs as important
 to, 73
 
 |  
 | 
   on plans, 206-7on preparing plans, 448-49
 and priority development of
 industries producing
 means of production,
 414
 on relation between culture
 and class origin, 554-55
 and revolutions in the East,
 404
 and role of trade unions,
 215-16
 and socialist technique, 315
 on soviets, 543
 and Stalin's resignation, 364
 state and, 523, 524
 and destruction of state
 machinery, 368
 on role of state economic or-
 gans, 35
 on Soviet state, 429
 and state enterprise, 249
 on state machine, 436
 and state ownership, 210
 on surpassing advanced coun-
 tries, 415
 on Taylorism, 238-39
 technology and, 312, 417
 use of quotes from, 370, 371,
 477
 work norms and, 253
 and worker-peasant alliance,
 119, 420, 562
 "Lenin and the Building of Col-
 lective Farms"
 (Krupskaya), 420
 Lenin enrollments, 332
 Leninism (Zinoviev), 370
 Lessons of October, The
 (Trotsky), 364
 "Letter to the Congress" (Lenin),
 364, 540
 
 | 
| 
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 | 
| 
Linhart, R., 67Livestock, 42
 reduction in number of, 117
 Loans
 constraints to pay, 137
 financial autonomy and, 269,
 280
 to peasants, 107
 sought by state, in rural areas,
 58
 Local trusts, see Financial au-
 tonomy
 Lysenko, T. D., 547
 
 
 Machinery
 wage differentials and, 250-51
 See also Agricultural machin-
 ery; Technology
 Management
 challenge to existing forms of,
 226-28
 class struggle and role of,
 215-17
 of collective farms, 473
 control of, from below, 222-26,
 230-31
 favoring freedom to hire, 299
 and financial autonomy, 267,
 268
 See also Financial autonomy
 financial proposals of (1921),
 56
 hostile to workers' coopera-
 tives and local industry,
 312
 intelligentsia in, 564, 565
 labor discipline and, 234-37
 and new line (1928), 417
 one-man, reaffirming, 236, 246
 Lenin and, 211, 288
 piece work, wage norms and,
 213-14, 241-47
 
 |  
 | 
  power and relative autonomyof, 387
 pressure by (1926-1928), for
 industrialization, 391
 role of, in accelerated indus-
 trialization (to 1932),
 452-53
 See also Industrialization
 production conferences op-
 posed by, 217-22
 in Shakhty affair, 223-24
 socialist emulation and,
 251-57
 in state factories, 210-13
 strengthening of, 310
 Taylorism and, 238, 239
 three-shift work and, 228-
 39
 wages of managers, 249
 work norms revised by, 243
 worker criticism and, 33,
 228-34
 See also Administrative ap-
 paratus; Experts
 Manifesto of the Communist
 Party, 515, 527
 Manufacturing industry, produc-
 tion in, 29
 Mao Tse-tung, 316, 536
 Marketing
 of agricultural produce,
 1923-1924 compared
 with prewar, 140-41
 of grain, surplus (reserve) and,
 93
 grain procurement as form of,
 34
 Marx, Karl, 408
 on bureaucracy, 525
 on changing labor relations,
 452
 commodity and money rela-
 tions in view of, 531
 
 | 
| 
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 | 
| 
Marx, Karl (cont.)and equal rights,180
 on evolutionist interpretation
 of his theory, 548-50
 on his not being a Marxist, 503
 ideological changes in view of,
 521-23
 on intensification of labor,
 237-38
 and labor vouchers,60
 Lenin on theory of, 22, 502
 See also Lenin, Vladimir
 Ilyich
 on money, 54
 and ouvriérisme, 551-52
 on political economy, 505
 on political role of producer,
 318
 on productive power, 49
 relations analyzed by, 67
 role of state ownership in view
 of, 527
 on social production process,
 289-92
 state as viewed by, 523-26
 Marxism, 501-8, 593-94
 Stalin's departure from, 510,
 511, 513-17
 tendency to identify Party
 with, 546-47
 tendency to reduce, to a form
 of evolutionism, 548-50
 worker-peasant alliance and,
 22
 See also Bolshevik Party
 Marxism-Leninism, 506, 535
 as theoretical basis of Bol-
 shevism, 501
 Mass movement
 ebbing of, 233-34
 rise of (1928), 228-33
 
 |  
 | 
Means of productionagricultural policy and, 102
 changing forms of separation of
 working class from, 317
 expansion of industry produc-
 ing, 413-15
 financial autonomy and separa-
 tion of workers from,
 269
 growth in value of, 306-7
 joint utilization of, 99
 for peasants, 429, 430
 struggle to acquire, 94-99
 underestimation of poor and
 middle peasant farms,
 103-5
 See also Agricultural
 machinery
 value from, wage relations and,
 291
 Mental-manual work, separation
 between, 565
 Middle peasants (serednyaki ), 33
 in collectives, 461-62
 See also Collectivization
 deterioration of overall situa-
 tion of (1928),116-20
 and differentiation of peas-
 antry, 86-87
 effects of taxes in favor of,
 389-90
 exchange relations for, in NEP
 period, 136-37
 forms of struggle of, 94-101
 and goal of NEP, 189
 in grain crisis, 93-94
 agricultural policy and,
 101-7
 grain requisitioned from,
 39-41
 grain sales by, 88
 
 | 
| 
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 | 
| 
  increase in proportion of, 86and Party, 337, 359
 as percent of peasant popula-
 tion, 88
 pressure on, as inadmissible,
 402
 productivity of, 455-56
 resistance of, (1929), 121-26
 and role of kulaks, 90, 359
 underestimation of farms, of,
 103-5
 Mikhailovsky, N., 548-49
 Mikoyan, A., 39, 65, 375
 Mir (village), 87, 101
 associated ideas of farm inde-
 pendence and solidarity
 within, 180-81
 idea of autonomy of, 176-78
 idea of equality within, 178-80
 in peasant ideology, 174-78
 small-scale industry under,
 201
 Mode of production, as principal
 form of social develop-
 ment, 512
 Molotov, V., 99, 103, 105, 106,
 218, 372, 553
 on kulak question, 466
 line supported by, 392
 and new line (1928), 398, 402,
 434
 and united opposition, 377
 Monetary system, 53-72
 class consequences of 1924 es-
 tablishment of, 58-59
 post-1925 changes in, 59-60
 process of reconstituting,
 54-57
 reform of, 57-61
 weak degree of control of,
 67-69
 
 |  
 | 
  See also Currency; Goldstandard
 Money relations, 49, 269, 531-34
 Monolithic principle in Party,
 539-42
 Municipal enterprises bank
 (Tsekombank), 63
 Myasnikov supporters, 443
 
 
 Na Agrarnom Fronte (journal),
 467, 468
 Narkomfin, see People's Com-
 missariat of Finance
 Narkomtorg (People's Commis-
 sariat of Trade), 39, 113,
 210
 National income
 agricultural tools as percent of
 (1926-1927), 102
 increase of (1926-1927), 388
 percent of, under state and
 cooperative sector, 32
 rate of increasing (1925-1929),
 193
 Nationalism, 552, 566
 NEP, see New Economic Policy
 New Economic Policy (NEP)
 abandonment of, 21, 43-44, 69,
 108
 emergency measures and, 110
 factors determining (from
 1926), 205-7
 final crisis of, 589-90
 planning and, 80-81
 concepts of, 66-67
 financial autonomy under,
 272-73
 an immediate purpose of, 189
 Party and, see Bolshevik Party
 peasant demands in, 53
 
 | 
| 
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 | 
| 
New Economic Policy (cont.)as policy of alliance between
 peasants and workers,
 21-21
 political interventions in, 74
 VSNKh role in, 77
 See also Supreme Council of
 the National Economy
 New Economics, The (Preobra-
 zhensky), 307, 374, 532
 Ninth Party Congress (1920), 77
 NOT (Nauchnaya Organizatsiya
 Truda ), 239, 240, 557
 "Notes of an Economist" (Bukha-
 rin), 407, 408, 411, 425
 
 "October and Comrade Trotsky's
 Theory of Permanent
 Revolution" (Stalin), 366
 October enrollments, 332, 334
 Oganovsky, N. P., 104
 OGPU (Unified State Political
 Administration), 376
 "On the Ideological Front"
 (Pletnev), 554
 Opinions, purge of, 443-44
 Ordzhonikidze, S., 365, 375
 Organization, fight for, 537-38
 Osinsky, V. V., 362, 402
 Ostrovityanov, K., 212, 241, 244,
 286-88, 292, 302, 307,
 315
 Osvok (special commission for
 the restoration of fixed
 capital), 79-81,104
 Outline of Political Economy
 (Lapidus and Os-
 trovityanov), 212, 241,
 286-89, 292-93, 307,
 315
 Ouvriérisme, 551-53, 562-63
 
 |  
 | 
Paris Commune, 524-26Patriarchal family, 180
 Peasant assemblies (skhod ), 90,
 118
 grain procurement and (1929),
 123
 and idea of equality within the
 mir, 178
 in peasant ideology, 174-76
 struggle for socialist forms of
 labor within, 180
 "Peasant Question in France and
 Germany" (Engels), 420
 Peasant revolts
 1920-1921, 541
 1929, 126
 Peasantry
 in barter system, 53-54
 and Bolshevik Party, 358-59
 aid given to cooperative and
 ;   collective farming by, 106
 distrust and disdain by
 Party, 121, 558-61
 division in Party and possi-
 ble resistance of, 435
 monetary system and rela-
 tions between state and
 peasantry, 61
 peasant ideology and, 173,
 178-82
 percent of peasants in
 (1927- 1929), 165
 recruitment, 554
 and resistance of peasants to
 coercive measures,
 121-26
 relations of exteriority, 517
 weakness among peasants,
 107-8, 113-16, 163-67
 as class, 552
 class differentiation of, and
 
 | 
| 
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 | 
| 
       grain supply to the mar-ket, 88-89
 contradictions in ideology of,
 173-83
 currency, state, and, 61
 discouraged from seeking
 work in towns, 298-99
 effects of financial autonomy
 system on, 278
 effects of planning on, 80
 and end of "war communism,"
 53
 exchange relations for, in NEP
 period, 136-39
 financial resources drawn
 from, 272-73
 See also Industrialization
 in goods famine, 68, 69
 Lenin and, see Lenin, Vladimir
 Ilyich
 mir in ideology of, 174-78
 See also: Mir
 monetary reform favored by,
 58
 overall view of (1928), 116-21
 penetration of socialist ideas
 among, 519-21
 polarization in, 86-87
 problems in accumulation and
 evolution of consump-
 tion by, 153-58
 social differentiation of, in
 NEP period, 95-91
 statistics illustrating differ-
 entiation of (1927),
 87-88
 supply of industrial goods to,
 see Agricultural
 machinery; Industrial
 goods
 in system of financial au-
 tonomy, 275
 
 |  
 | 
  unemployment and rural over-population, 296
 See also Agriculture; Middle
 peasants; Poor peasants;
 Rich peasants; Worker-
 peasant alliance
 Penal Code
 Article 61, 124-25
 Article 107, 38
 People's Commissariat of Ag-
 riculture, 300
 People's Commissariat of Fi-
 nance (Narkomfin), 54,
 55, 77, 78, 274
 and changes in peasantry, 86
 Gosbank and, 56
 monetary reform (1924) and,
 59-60
 and new banking system, 63
 People's Commissariat of Labor,
 246
 People's Commissariat of Trade
 (Narkomtorg), 39, 113,
 210
 Permanent revolution, 366-67
 Peter the Great (Czar of Russia),
 415
 Petrovsky, G. Y., 564
 Petty bourgeoisie, 202-3
 bourgeoisie vs. (1926), 206
 in Party membership, 333, 336,
 341-42
 Philosophical Notebooks (Le-
 nin), 537
 Piece wages (and piece work),
 213, 241-47
 Planning
   ;capitalist relations and, 73,
 288-90, 529-34
 commerce subordinated to ob-
 jectives of, 37, 38
 credit and, 64-65
 
 | 
| 
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 | 
| 
Planning (cont.)development of, 73-81
 and direct relations of produc-
 tion, 266
 establishment of organs of, 50
 extension of, 319-21
 financial autonomy in system
 of, 276-83
 grain procurement
 as a basis for, 34
 shortfall in procurement, 37
 and increase in planning or-
 gans, 191-92
 increasing role of, 30
 industrial investment (1926-
 1927 on), 386-88
 See also Investment
 NEP conflict with, 206-7
 organs favoring big enter-
 prises, 313
 piece work and, 245, 246
 plan counterposed to market,
 529-34
 prices and, 148, 149
 See also Prices
 Sixteenth Conference and in-
 dustrial, 446-54
 trade union role in, 343
 wages, productivity and,
 246-47
 Platform of the 4, 370
 Platform of the 46, 362-64
 Pletnev, 554
 Political Bureau, 244, 355
 authority shifted out of, 400,
 459
 clash within (1928), 398-402,
 412
 kulak question in, 466
 membership of (1926), 372
 and new line (1928-1929),
 421-27, 434-35
 
 |  
 | 
  and platform of the 46, 362Trotsky and, 365, 376
 Zinoviev removed from, 375
 Poor peasants (bednyaki ), 33
 in collectives, 461-62
 See also Collectivization
 and differentiation of peas-
 antry, 86-87
 effects of taxes in favor of,
 389-90
 exchange relations for, in NEP
 period, 136-37
 forms of struggle of, in NEP
 period, 94-101
 and goal of NEP, 189
 in grain procurement crisis,
 92-94
 grain requisitioned from, 39, 41
 grain sales by, 88
 Party implantation among, 337
 as percent of peasant popula-
 tion, 88
 productivity of, 455-56
 reduction in proportion of, 86
 and role of kulaks, 90
 underestimation of farms of,
 103-5
 Poor peasants' committees
 (Komnezamy ; KNS),
 100, 124
 Population growth, 1913-1926,
 29
 Postyshev, P. P., 420
 Positivism, 550
 Poverty of Philosophy, The
 (Marx), 514
 Pravda (newspaper), 120, 124,
 253, 366, 379, 406, 407,
 420, 424-46, 454, 459,
 468
 Preobrazhensky, E., 89, 97, 156-
 58, 362, 367, 401, 507
 
 | 
| 
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 | 
| 
  economic views of, 307, 374,532
 on exploiting pre-socialist
 forms of economy, 377
 law of value contrasted with
 planning principle by,
 531, 532
 Prices
 in Bolshevik ideology, 505
 class effect of policy on,
 139-40
 commodity relations, 529-34
 conditions governing pur-
 chase, for agricultural
 produce, 147-53
 and consolidation of worker-
 peasant alliance, 65
 control of trade and, 203, 204
 economic problems resolved
 by, 65-66
 effect on, of private sector
 competition with state
 and cooperative agen-
 cies, 36
 financial autonomy and, 271,
 274
 grain procurement agencies
 and price policy, 34
 See also Exports
 high industrial, low agricul-
 tural, 89, 97, 135
 cost of wages and, 192
 policy on (1927), 385
 retail prices (1928-1929),
 190
 rise in agricultural produce
 (1926-1929), 389
 scissors problem,150-53,
 189, 190, 390
 ideological conception of role,
 285-93
 increases in (1923-1927), 30
 
 |  
 | 
  loss of control over system of,69
 movement of (1924-1929), 68
 and ownership of industry,
 199, 200
 policy on, to improve peasant
 living standard, 389
 policy on, set at end of 1927,
 36-37
 regulation of, 282
 resolution on (1927), 383-84
 retail, of industrial goods
 (1928-1929), 190
 selling, and cost of production
 in industry, 189-92
   state industry and, 199
 supply and demand and, 29
 and working class hostility to-
 ward "Nepmen," 205
 Primitive accumulation, see Ac-
 cumulation
 Private sector
 in agriculture, 32
 contradiction between state
 and, in trade and indus-
 try, 197-208
 elimination of, 206, 321
 See also Rich peasants
 evolution of, 199-203
 grain in (1929),110
 grain procurement by, in NEP
 period, 34, 35
 ownership of, 199
 peasant nondelivery of grain
 and recourse to, 124
 percent of wholesale and retail
 trade in (1926-1927),
 203
 proletarian discontent and
 reappearance of, 338
 restoration of limited, 50
 retail trade in, 36
 
 | 
| 
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 | 
| 
Private sector (cont.)rise in prices in (1927-1929),
 68
 wholesale trade in, 35
 Problems of Leninism (Stalin),
 544-45
 Processing industry, production
 in (1927-1929), 28-29
 Production, planning function in,
 73
 See also Planning
 Production conferences (meet-
 ings), 217-22, 233
 Party inability to help, 518
 and Party members, 340
 Production costs
 planned fall in (to 1932), 449
 unemployment and, 294
 Production relations
 in agriculture, 135-62
 capitalist character of, 266-67
 class struggle and struggle to
 transform, 215-34
 commodity relations and,
 266-67
 and juridical forms of owner-
 ship, 527-29
 Production targets, socialist
 emulation and, 254, 255
 Productive forces
 development of, 314-19,
 509-13
 economist-technicist concep-
 tion of, technology and,
 508-19
 social development as effect of
 development, 513-17
 as source of development of
 society, 512
 Productivity
 farm, 455-56
 See also Labor productivity
 
 |  
 | 
Profitsin Bolshevik ideology, 505
 and evolution of employment
 and unemployment,
 293-301
 as goal, financial autonomy
 and, 270, 272, 274,
 277-82
 ideological conception of role
 of, 285-93
 ideological conception of sig-
 nificance of, by state en-
 terprises, 292-93
 investments and, 305
 net industrial (1924-1927), 194
 obsolete equipment and,
 305-6, 311
 in private sector, 198
 unemployment and, 312-13
 Proletariat
 Bolshevik Party as vanguard
 of, 331
 See also Bolshevik Party
 bourgeoisie and, in NEP
 period, 32, 33, 205-6
 characteristics of, 551, 552
 coercion and development of,
 211
 disappearance of, 316-17
 increase of Soviet, 594
 and polarization in agriculture,
 86-87
 poor peasants entering, 86
 reproduction process and
 weakness of, 315-16
 rising wages and lowered liv-
 ing standard of, 314
 See also Wages
 and surplus value, 288
 tendency to identify Party with
 state and, 543-46
 wages and "real," 250
 
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  weakening of, 309-10See also Dictatorship of pro-
 letariat; Worker-peasant
 alliance; Working class
 Proletkult (group), 239, 240, 510,
 554, 557
 Prombank (bank for industry), 63
 Public health, 32
 health of Party activists, 340
 Public libraries, books in (1913
 and 1927), 31
 Public works, unemployment
 and, 300
 Pugachev, 559
 Punishment for nonfulfillment of
 grain quotas, 124-36
 Purchasing power, 55
 Purges
 need for, and effects of Party,
 439-45
 of rural cells, 165-67
 Pyatakov, P. I., 80, 362
 
 
 Rabkrin, 86, 97
 Railroads, increasing tonnage
 carried by, 30
 Rationalization of production,
 252-53
 Razin, Stephan, 559
 Reading, teaching, to the masses,
 31
 Reality, identification of theory
 with, 547-48
 Red Banner of Labor (Sept.
 1928), 253
 Religious ideas, peasant, 173-74
 Repression and principle of un-
 ity, 547
 Republican trusts, 271
 See also Financial autonomy
 Requisitioning, end of, 53-54
 
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Revolution, from above, idea of,523-27, 550, 560, 592
 Revolutionary Marxism, see Bol-
 shevik Party
 Rich peasants (kulaki ), 33
 benefit from gold-backed cur-
 rency, 58
 curbing, 384
 and differentiation of peas-
 ;antry, 86-87
 dominate peasant assemblies,
 175
 eliminating, as a class, 464-72,
 591
 encouraged to prosper, 155
 56, 368-69
 exchange relations for, in NEP
 period, 137
 and goal of NEP, 189
 and grain crisis, 38, 39, 41, 94,
 115, 187, 399
 agricultural policy and,
 101-7
 and economic strengthening
 of, 431-32
 first phase of grain procure-
 ment and sales by, 91-92
 kulaks' strike, 88-90, 96, 101
 heading the mir, 179
 increasing influence of, 86,
 108, 120, 338, 359, 418,
 431-32, 591
 independence from, of poor
 and middle peasants,
 99-101
 means of production and,
 94-99
 in peasant assemblies, 177
 as percent of peasant popula-
 tion, 88
 purchase prices of technical
 crops benefiting, 148
 
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Rich peasants (cont.)restricting tendencies of, 382,
 402, 456, 590
 Right deviation and, 119, 424
 role of, in exchange, 142
 in rural assemblies, 170-72,
 179
 in rural cells of Party, 166
 social and political role of,
 89-91
 weakened middle peasants
 aiding, 118
 See also Collectivization
 Right opposition, see Bukharin,
 N.
 "Role and Functions of the
 Trade Unions, The"
 (Lenin), 215
 Rouble
 problems of integrating in
 European financial sys-
 tem, 67-68
 as paper money, 60
 See also Currency
 RKK (commission for settling
 labor disputes), 344
 Rudzutak, Y. E., 375
 Ruling power
 planning and class character
 of, 75
 See also Bolshevik Party
 Rural bourgeoisie
 polarization in agriculture and,
 86-87
 See also Rich peasants
 Rural cells (of Party), 165-67,
 172
 Rural industry, 312, 378, 388,
 555
 Rural overpopulation, 296
 Rural soviets, 124, 167-73
 and agrarian policy, 456
 funds available to (1927), 175
 
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  Party preference for workingwith, 179
 skhod and, 175-77
 skhod, mir and, 174-76
 small-scale industry under, 201
 Russian Peasant, The (Gorky),
 558, 562
 Rykov, A. I., 382
 clashes with (early 1928), 398
 line supported by, 392
 and new line (1928-1929), 402,
 407, 412, 421-23, 425-27,
 434
 
 
 Sales syndicates, 209, 275-76,
 281
 Sapronov, T. V., 362
 Savings banks, 63
 Schlichter, 296
 Second Comintern Congress, 87
 Second International, 501, 550
 Secrecy of economic decisions, 66
 Secretariat, 40, 355, 459
 Serednyaki, see Middle peasants
 Settlement notes (svoznaks ), 55
 Seventh Congress of Komsomol
 (1926), 249
 Seventh Congress of the Trade
 Unions (1926), 213-14,
 221, 249, 250
 Shapiro, D., 200
 Shock-brigades, 252, 253
 Shockworkers, 252
 Short-term loans, 56
 Shvernik, N. M., 345
 Sixteenth Party Conference
 (1929), 121-22, 165, 235,
 241, 422, 433-57, 523
 Sixth Congress of the Comintern
 (1928), 297, 404-6
 Sixth Trades Union Congress
 (1924), 217
 
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Sknod, see Peasant assembliesSmall-scale industry, 200-2, 555
 Social classes, 22-23, 73, 552
 Social democratic parties, 404,
 405
 Social development, dominant
 Bolshevik view of,
 509-17
 appraised, 513-17
 Social position criterion, 334-35
 Social relations, absence of
 dialectical analysis of
 system of, 302-6
 effects, 305-6
 Socialism
 NEP as possible road to, 25-26
 in one country, 367
 worker-peasant alliance and,
 366-68
 Socialist character of planning,
 289-90
 Socialist emulation, 230, 237-57,
 453
 Sokolnikov, G. Y., 59, 274, 370,
 424
 Soviet government, see State, the
 Soviet school, transformation of,
 181-83
 Soviet trusts (state trusts),
 268-69
 See also Financial autonomy
 Soviet unions (state unions or en-
 terprises), 268-69
 See also Financial autonomy
 Soviets
 Lenin on, 543
 Party and, see Bolshevik Party
 working class and activity of,
 346-49
 See also Rural soviets; Urban
 soviets
 Sovkhozes, 85
 
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  See also CollectivizationSovnarkom, see Council of
 People's Commissars
 Special commission for the res-
 toration of fixed capital
 (Osvok), 79-81, 104
 Speculation, grain procurement
 crisis and, 38, 39, 41
 Stalin, Joseph, 89, 112, 297
 and Chinese revolution, 379,
 380
 on development of industry
 (1925), 373
 in grain procurement crisis, 40
 view of application of
 emergency measures,
 115-16
 on issue of worker-peasant al-
 liance, 366-68
 and linearity of history, 550
 on need for criticism, 222-23
 and new line (1928-1929), 392,
 398-407, 421, 425-33,
 447
 offers resignation, 364
 Party and, 119, 164-65, 226-27,
 336, 338, 365, 375, 377-
 78, 380-81, 509-17, 539,
 544-45, 558
 and peasantry, 118, 167-71,
 382, 462, 463, 468-70,
 472, 519, 520, 560-61
 permanent revolution
 criticized by, 366
 principle of totality affirmed
 by, 536-37
 on religious ideas, 174
 socialism in one country in
 view of, 367
 socialist character of state en-
 terprises as viewed by,
 302-3
 
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Stalin, Joseph (cont.)on socialist emulation, 253,
 255, 256
 state capitalism as viewed by,
 371-72
 state ownership and, 528
 view of world situation by
 (1928), 404-5
 and workers, 192, 218-19, 222,
 224-26, 230-31, 438
 State, the
 capital accumulation and, 76
 and collective forms of peasant
 organization, 101
 and function of Gosplan,
 77-78
 Lenin and, see Lenin, Vladimir
 Ilyich
 Party conception of role of,
 523-27
 policy error toward peasants,
 grain and, 96
 industrial goods for peasants
 and, 98-99
 state framework for activity of
 working class, 552
 tendency to identify Party with
 proletariat, 543-46
 State bank, see Gosbank
 State capitalism, 210-12, 291,
 293, 303, 370-72
 State commercial organs, 144,
 145
 State Commission for the Elec-
 trification of Russia
 (Goselro), 77, 78
 State and cooperative organs
 in grain procurement crisis,
 92-93
 sale of industrial goods by, 209
 trade controlled by, 203-4
 
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State farms in NEP period, 85State industry, see Industry State ownership, 209-65, 527-29
 State Planning Commission
 (Gosplan), 64, 243, 362,
 447, 529
 formed, 76
 function of, 77-79
 and grain procurement crisis,
 93
 monetary illusion of, 533
 Osvok and, 80
 and Sixteenth Party Confer-
 ence, 448
 State Political Administration (GUP), 466
 State and Revolution, The
 (Lenin), 523, 524
 State sector, 32, 197-265
 Stockbreeding, 42
 Strikes, 243, 344-45, 370, 541
 Apr.-June 1928, 229
 1926-1928, 344
 piece work and, 243, 244
 Strong, Anna Louise,467
 Strumilin, S. G., 87, 88, 280, 296,
 389, 451
 Subsistence farming, 140
 Surplus labor, 49
 Surplus value, 288, 293, 319
 Supreme Council of the National
 Economy (VSNKh),209,
 213, 221, 268, 276, 375,
 385, 411
 financial autonomy and, 274,
 279
 function of, 76, 77
 Gosplan and, 78
 industrial plan (1928) and, 407
 industrial trusts subordinate
 to, 271
 
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  large-scale industry plans and,447
 and new line (1928), 417
 Osvok and, 79-81, 104
 piece work and, 245, 246
 procedure for drawing up the
 plan, 281
 production conferences and,
 219-20
 in scheme of financial au-
 tonomy, 269
 socialist emulation and, 251
 three-shift work and, 228
 workers criticized by, 230
 worker criticism and, 232
 Syrtsov, S. I., 121
 
 
 Tardiness, see Labor discipline
 Tax-in-kind, replacing requi-
 sitioning, 53-54
 Taxes
 coercion to collect (from 1928),
 138-39
 hard, 124-25
 individual, 117, 118
 by land community, 175
 of poor and middle peasants
 abatement of, 87
 constraints to pay, 137
 effects of, in favor of, 389-90
 reduced agricultural, 93, 369
 and reintroduction of money,
 54
 Taylor, 238
Taylorism, 237-57
Technicians, see Experts; Man-
 agement
 Technology, 312, 517-19
 economist-technicist concep-
 tion of productive forces
 and primacy of, 508-19
 
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  increasing role ascribed to,477
 and industrial development,
 414-15
 labor discipline and type of
 development in, 314-15
 Marx on, 515, 516
 planning and development of,
 75
 and reconstruction of agricul-
 ture, 415-18, 429-31
 role of, in Party ideology,
 555-58
 social relations changed
 through, 553
 See also Agricultural machin-
 ery
Teleological conception of eco-
 nomic development,
 279-80
 Third Congress of Soviets, 564
 Third International, see Comin
 tern
 Thirteenth Party Conference
 (1924), 57, 215, 217, 363,
 364
 Thirteenth Party Congress
 (1924), 106, 204, 542,
 553, 562-63
 Time-and-motion study, 214
 Tomsky, M. P., 218, 235-36, 249,
 345, 372
 line supported by, 392
 and new line (1928-1929), 398,
 402, 407, 412, 421, 423,
 425-27, 453
 and wage differentials, 250
 Totality, principle of, 536,
 538-42
 Towns
 disturbance of relations be
 
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Towns (cont.)tween country and, 41,
 110-13
 See also Grain procurement
 Gorky on townsmen, 558-59
 new forms of bonds between
 country and, 429-30
 in peasant ideology, 174,
 177-78
 peasant mistrust of, 167
 poor and middle peasants pro-
 visioning, 88, 89
 priority give to, in consumer
 goods, 391
 procurement crisis as crisis of
 relations between coun-
 try and, 188
 Trade
 contradiction between private
 and state sectors in,
 197-208
 disadvantageous terms of, for
 agriculture, 74
 1923-1924 and 1924-1927
 turnover, 30
 ownership in sphere of, 203-5
 percent of turnover, under
 state and cooperative
 sectors, 32
 retail, in industrial goods in
 rural areas, 145-47
 retail, state and cooperative
 agencies in, 36
 state and cooperative, 35-37
 wholesale, concentrated in
 state and cooperative
 sector, 35-36
 See also Exports; Imports
 Trade unions, 202
 broadening mass base of, and
 independence of,
 342-46
 
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  cadres of, 343class struggle and role of,
 215-17
 collective agreements with,
 242
 discouraging peasants coming
 to towns for work,
 298-99
 in financial autonomy system,
 271
 and labor discipline, 235
 noninterference by, in man-
 agement, 234
 piece wages and, 243
 piece work and, 245, 246
 power over organization of
 labor taken from, 557
 in production conferences,
 217-22
 question of, at Fourteenth
 Party Conference,
 372-74
 role of, in industrialization
 (1929-1932), 452-54
 socialist emulation and, 254
 in strikes, 344-45
 and three-shift work, 229
 wage differentials and, 249-50
 of Western countries, 404, 405
 and work norms, 213-14, 245,
 246, 343, 344
 Trades Union Council, 254
 Trotsky, Leon, 46, 363-67, 372,
 374-82, 421, 435, 553
 Trotsky Archives, 412
 Trotskyism, 157, 365, 377, 407-9,
 412, 435, 443-44, 454,
 507
 Trotskyist-Zinovievist opposi-
 tion, 90
 Tsekombank (municipal enter-
 prises bank), 63
 
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Twelfth Party Conference(1922), 105
 Twelfth Party Congress (1923),
 288, 543
 
 
 Ulyanova, Maria, 459
 Unemployment, 293-306, 311-
 14, 449
 Unified State Political Adminis-
 tration (OGPU), 376
 United opposition, 374-82
 United States, 276
 Unity, primacy of, over contra-
 diction, 543-47
 Unity of opposites, 537
 Urban soviets, 201, 347-48
 Use value, 267-68, 307, 433
 
 
 Value, 49
 in Bolshevik ideology, 505
 crop, paid in relation to farm
 implements and animals, 98
 exchange, 433
 law of, contrasted with plan
 ning principle, 531-32
 price, wages and, 286, 290-91
 relating to wages, 242
 transfer of, to industry, 74
 use, 267-68, 307, 433
 Varga, Eugene, 297
 Village, see: Mir
 Voluntarist illusions, 389,
 526-27
 Voroshilov, K. Y., 365, 372
 VSNKh, seeSupreme Council of
 the National Economy
 VTsIK (All-Union Central
 Executive Committee),
 347-48, 355
 
 
 Wages
 in Bolshevik ideology, 505
 
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  commodity relations and, 529-34
 contradictions in policy on,
 390-92
 and evolution of employment
 and unemployment, 293-
 301
 in financial autonomy system,
 272
 grain prices affecting real,
 149
 ideological conception of role
 of, 285-93
 increasing, 193, 213, 243-44
 industrialization and lowering
 of real, 235
 labor productivity and, 192-
 93
 level of, unemployment and,
 313-14
 piece, 241-47
 planned rise in (to 1932), 449
 shortened work day and same,
 228
 sliding scale of, 55
 splits in working groups and in
 equality of, 247-51
 work norms and raised, 243
 See also Collective agreements
 Work day
 shortened, 228
 three-shift, 228-29
 Work norms, 235, 241-47
 CLI and, 241
 fixed from above, 213-15, 228
 socialist emulation and, 254-
 56
 trade union role in, 213-14,
 245, 246, 343, 344
 Worker-peasant alliance, 361-
 97
   ;collectivization and, 126, 468,
 472
 See also Collectivization
 contradictory forms of, 30-33
 
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Worker-peasant alliance (cont.)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
 
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Workers' control, 221Working 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
 
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