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| Title | The New phase in the Soviet Union |
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| Publisher | Workers Library Publishers |
| Date | 1931 |
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| Language | English |
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| Original Item Extent | 55, [1] pages; 22 cm |
| Original Item Location | DK267.M6242 |
| Original Item URL | http://library.uh.edu/record=b8321015~S5 |
| Original Collection | Socialist and Communist Pamphlets |
| Digital Collection | Socialist and Communist Pamphlets |
| Digital Collection URL | http://digital.lib.uh.edu/collection/scpamp |
| Repository | Special Collections, University of Houston Libraries |
| Repository URL | http://libraries.uh.edu/branches/special-collections |
| Use and Reproduction | In Copyright |
| File Name | index.cpd |
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| Transcript | ponding level of this industry in such countries as France and the U.S.A. This obliges us to place special emphasis on the regeneration of our heavy industry and the increasing output. That is why the industrial and financial plan for 1929-1930, while providing for an increase in industrial output as a whole of 31 per cent., provides for an expansion of the heavy industries by 46 per cent. We are confident that this plan will be not only carried out but surpassed. We shall strive to increase the output of heavy industry this year by at least 50 per cent. 2.—-I'lIU SOCIALIST RECONSTRUCTION OF AGRICULTURE. To turn to the question of agriculture. The first and principal question is that of the grain supply, on which depends the feeding of our cities. This year we achieved substantial successes on the grain front. The situation on this front during the two preceding years was one of exceptional difficulty, owing to the opposition of the kulaks, while the task of laying in the necessary stores of grain was protracted throughout the whole year, which had an adverse effect upon all our economic activity. But the last grain collection campaign demonstrated our substantial achievements in the mobilisation of the poor and middle peasantry against the kulaks, and was very successful. In the main it was concluded in the first five months, and the plan was more than carried out. For the first time this year we have been able to constitute a grain reserve of two million tons. Thus we have achieved a decisive change on the grain front, and our workmen and Red Army have their bread assured until the new harvest. Now we are faced with another campaign in connection with agriculture. I have in mind the spring sowing campaign. During the next few months this will be the principal front of socialist construction. On this front we arc now concentrating special forces and, in keeping with the progress of mass collectivisation, are making a preparation for the'spring sowing by new methods. I will speak more in detail of the tasks of this campaign later. At the moment 1 want to dwell on the special conditions which have developed in our agriculture. I refer to collectivisation, which has developed in recent months to a gigantic extent. The radical change in the rate of development of collective agriculture which made itself felt in the second half of last vear repreM'nts an e •ent of exceptional importance for the cause of communism. It expresses itself in the fact that the "central figure of agriculture"—the middle peasant—has turned towards- socialism. Vast masses of the peasants, poor and middle, have become involved in the process of collectivisation. Wholesale collectivisation, i.e., that in which eighty to ninety per cent, of 12 |