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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 | laying these foundations all along the line and, despite every difficult}, are successfully going ahead. All this leads to a radical change, not only of the internal situation in the U.S.S.R., but also to most important changes in the international sphere. Let me deal briefly with this final point. It is scarcely necessary to say that from the very moment that the Soviet Republic was founded, a sharp distinction of principle was drawn between the U.S.S.R. and the bourg-eois states. The antagonism between the political principles of the land of the Soviets and the bourgeois states told al every step. Only now, however, as a result of mass collectivisation, do these differences attain their most acute stage. Until quite recently, along the whole boundary of the U.S.S.R., there could be found on both sides more or less similar systems of economy ; both there and here petty individual peasant economy was predominant. There were no radical differences in production, so far as agriculture is con- cerned. Now the position is sharply changing : collectivised agriculture has come squarely up to the very frontier of the bourgeois states. Thus, immediately after that frontier begins, not only a different political system, but also a different economic system and a different type of economy. The antagonism of principle between the country which is building socialism and the capitalism with which it is surrounded is being laid bare. This must be reckoned with in drawing political conclusions. We must also reckon with the fact that such a situation vastly increases the importance of the U.S.S.R. in respect of its influence on the toiling masses of the capitalist countries and the countries of a colonial type, particularly in the conditions of the growing world economic crisis. Tin' bourgeoisie in the countries of imperialism is already drawing its conclusions. The frenzied anti-soviet campaign which is developing, whatever its pretext, is evidence of this. The question of the imperialist preparations for war against the U.S.S.R. now becomes particularly acute. The Soviet Union knows, however, thai in the person of the international proletariat it has a mighty allv. In reply to the furious attacks of the imperialists against the U.S.S.R. there arise all over the world new columns of revolutionary workers, out to defend their rights, and to defend also the U.S.S.R. as the symbol of their emancipation. The rising revolutionary wave inspires confidence in the working class of our country and strengthens its faith in victory. The proletariat of the Soviet Union considers its first duty to be to strengthen its links with the whole international proletariat and the oppressed masses of I he colonies. The successful progress of socialist industry ; the developing collectivisation of the- poor and middle 50 |