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DOCUMENT #1: Stalin’s Report to the Seventeenth Congress (January 26, 1934)
DOCUMENT #1: Stalin’s Report to the Seventeenth Congress (January 26, 1934)
Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin makes a report to the leading members of the Communist Party describing how the Soviet Union has successfully transformed itself into an advanced industrial society through the creation of collective farms. He also juxtaposes the growth of the Soviet command economy with the capitalist countries of the Great Depression.
Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin makes a report to the leading members of the Communist Party describing how the Soviet Union has successfully transformed itself into an advanced industrial society through the creation of collective farms. He also juxtaposes the growth of the Soviet command economy with the capitalist countries of the Great Depression.
During this period, the U.S.S.R. has become radically transformed and has cast off the integument[1] of backwardness and medievalism. From an agrarian country it has become an industrial country. … It goes without saying that this enormous progress could take place only on the bases of successful building of socialism. … that the colossal progress…has also signified the elimination of capitalist elements….
[We declare] that we are heading for the formation of a classless society. … It has to be achieved and built by the efforts of all the working people, by strengthening the organs of the dictatorship of the proletariat, by intensifying the class struggle, by abolishing classes, by eliminating the remnants of the capitalist classes, and in battles with enemies both internal and external…
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[1] Integument – something that covers or encloses
Source: Weisner, Discovering the Global Past – Volume II: Since 1400
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