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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 |
| Title | Image 30 |
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| File Name | uhlib_14582000_029.jpg |
| Transcript | together through the villages. The leaders of the detachments drew up the ranks and reported to those present on the objects of their tour—a 'military' report on the peaceful subject of collective farms ! Afterwards there was a meeting and a show, and the nett result was that the unorganised mass entered the collective farm." In this way the collective farmers infect by their enthusiasm new sections of the toilers, who now are moving- in serried ranks along the road of collectivisation. The problem of the political education and organisation of the peasant masses which are entering the peasant farms is developing at such a rapid rate that the most active help is required in the villages from the industrial workers to enable it to be successfully dealt with. It was on account of this that the Party and the trade unions proclaimed a mobilisation of the advanced workers in the factories for the countryside. Seventy thousand workers, instead of the twenty-five thousand asked for, responded to the call in a very short time. The majority of them were not members of the Party. Selecting the best, we have sent over 25,000 workers into the villages during the last two months. This mobilisation took place amidst scenes of great enthusiasm, as can be seen, for example, from the following communication in a local paper : "The despatch of 200 workers leaving for the collective farms of the Northern Caucasus became a gigantic demonstration, in which about 30,000 took part" (Molot (The Hammer), February ist, 1930). The villages also met the mobilisation of the workers most sympathetically. This is evidenced by the reports coming in from the districts to the effect that the majority of the workers sent are already in the leading bodies of the collective farms. Furthermore, the Party and the Soviets have quite recently carried out a mobilisation of several thousand workers from amongst their leading officers, particularly members of town Soviets. This also has been of great assistance to the villages in their task of collectivisation. The workers sent to the villages have begun already to send in their impressions. The latter reflect the same fact of vast enthusiasm amongst the peasant masses. Here is what Comrade Zaitsevsky, a workman of the Moscow "Parostroi" works, and one of "the 25,000," writes of his observations in the Penza district. Describing a peasant meeting- at which a resolution was passed to enter the collective farm, Comrade Zaitsevsky concludes his letter thus : "I have been in the Red Army, I have been at the front when the Soviet Republic was in peril at the hands of the Whites, but nothing at any time moved me so deeply as this meeting. The 2S |