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First Published:
1929 Source: Soviet Union Information Bureau,
Washington D.C.A useful collection to set the scene (at times
unaccessible if download limit is exceeded!)
From
Five-Year Plan to the Purges
by Ted
Grant. A (left wing) overview of the period 1927-41. This includes (useful)
annotated references to several of the best known history books on the
period. Not difficult to read.
 The
political economy of Stalinism: evidence from the Soviet secret archives by P R Gregory Univ of Houston. pdf of Cambridge press publication
(2004) Very useful article on the economic structure of the Stalinist
regime.
Soviet Economy Under Stalin
IB notes on the economy
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Collectivisation
What happened:
from
Spartacus educational Site. Excellent introductory sections for an
overview linked to documents
Soviet
Archive Exhibit - Collectivisation and Industrialization
A good basic explanation of the 5 Year plans and collectivisation based on the US Library of congress Soviet Archives.
This allows you to click on documents to see them.
Collectivization in Smolensk-
by Gerhard Rempel. We can
get a good idea of how the process of collectivization worked from
looking at the province of Smolensk. Brief but good example of the
process. But it is in red!!!
Stalin and the Crisis in Agriculture
Undergraduate support article and source by Professor
O'Brien, Dept of History, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, New York
Stalin documents:
The Impact:
Vital economic data from R.W. Davies and S.G. Wheatcroft,
The Years of Hunger: Soviet
Agriculture, 1931-1933. Volume
5 of The Industrialisation of
Soviet Russia. 2004 Univ of
Warwick (Can be slow
Debates
on Soviet agriculture This
project is directed and designed by John Gledhill for the University
of Manchester Department of Social Anthropology and the ERA
Consortium.
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The
Soviet famines of 1921 and 1932-3
- by
Brian Carnell. A straightforward, introductory account of the famines.
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Newly
Opened Archives Give a New Account of Collectivization and
Dekulakization - by Nikolai Ivnitskii
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Good on the actual impact of collectivisation. Witness based.
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Ukraine Famine, 1932-3
- Eyewitness
accounts of the impact.
The Ukrainian Famine.
A compilation of sources from the Ukraine Weekly.
The
Famine in Ukraine 1932-33
- a special
page on the impact of Stalin´s policies on the Ukraine. Part of the
InfoUkes website.
The man-made famine of 1933 in Soviet
Ukraine: what happened and why
by Dr. James E. Mace, post-doctorate fellow at the Harvard Ukrainian
Research Institute, & junior collaborator Robert Conquest on
the Ukrainian famine. This paper was delivered 1983.
The Ninth Circle
"In
Commemoration of the Victims of the Famine of 1933"
by Olexa
Woropay, who worked as an agronomist in the Ukraine during the
famine. Complete book published on the web by Ukrainian Studies
Fund. Good photos of contemporary sources. Useful editors
introduction for an overview of period.
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 The 1932-3 Famine genocide in Soviet
Ukraine by
Artem Yaroslav Luhovy in
FamineGenocide.com
1932-34 Great Famine: documented view by
Dr. Dana Dalrymple The
(extensive & academic) article below was originally published in the
scholarly journal Soviet Studies in January 1964.
Famine in Soviet Ukraine
From "Circular on Hunger." 3 September
1933. As reproduced in The Road to Terror, trans. Benjamin Sher, ed.
J. Arch Getty and Oleg Naumov (New Haven, CT: Yale University
Press, 1999)
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Induced
Famine 1932-33: The Forgiven Holocaust
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Witness accounts from the Ukraine. Lubomyr Prytulak's
Ukrainian Archive
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Government response to
famine
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3.
The 5
Year
Plans
What
happened:
from Spartacus educational Site. Excellent introductory sections
for an overview linked to documents an>
Economic Development By Prof Rempel,
Western New England College. Detailed lecture
Another
View of Stalin - Socialist Industrialization
The 5 Year Plans as seen by a committed
Stalinist
Khristian Rakovsky: The Five Year Plan in Crisis (1930)
1981
Critique. The
translation is by Donald Filtzer.
(at times
unaccessible if download limit is exceeded!)
Stalin on the Need to Industrialize, 1928
Undergraduate support article and
source by Professor O'Brien, Dept of History, John Jay College of Criminal
Justice, New York
Map of industrialisation. Not the neatest, but serves if you have
nothing else!
New Russia's Primer: The Story of the Five-Year Plan
written
at the time (1930) by
M.
Ilin Written for use in the schools and was designed for
children from twelve to fourteen years of age. Its Russian title
is The Story of the Great
Plan, and it was to
acquaint boys and girls with the Five-Year Plan of construction
which was launched in October, 1928. It also purposes to explain
to children the nature of a planned economy and to introduce
them to the entire subject of social planning. This is the
full booklet, translated and posted on the web. easy though to
"dip into" (at
times unaccessible if download limit is exceeded!)
An American Engineer in Stalin's Russia: The Memoirs of Zara Witkin,
1932-1934
In 1932 Zara Witkin, a prominent American engineer, set
off for the Soviet Union with two goals: to help build a society more
just and rational than the bankrupt capitalist system at home, and to
seek out the beautiful film star Emma Tsesarskaia. His memoirs offer a
detailed view of Stalin's bureaucracy - entrenched planners who snubbed
new methods; construction bosses whose cover-ups led to terrible
disasters; engineers who plagiarized Witkin's work; workers whose pride
was defeated.
Stalin documents:
The
Impact:
This powerpoint from
Invicta Grammar
School is a good starter.
The Economics of forced labor: The Soviet Gulag Paul R. Gregory and Valery Lazareva. A collection of studies that elucidate the internal mechanisms of the Gulag-system, making use of Soviet archival materials. Full-text PDF versions of each chapter can be accessed by clicking on the
desired chapter title.
Stakhanovite
Movement:
Stalinism as a Way of Life
Image
gallery of the Stakhanovites produced under the direction of VP Yefanov for
the Soviet pavilion at the New York World's Fair of 1939. See the
Stakhanovites, aviators, scientists ... Excellent, but takes a while to
load. Co-edited
by Lewis Siegelbaum and Andrei Sokolov
Year of the Stakhanovite. A works in progress but has many interesting images/details not found elsewhere.
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4.
The Terror
What it was
from
Spartacus educational Site. Excellent introductory sections for an
overview linked to documents
Repression
and Terror: Kirov Murder and Purges
- Brief
but clear account from the Russian Archives of the US Library of
Congress
Modern
History Sourcebook - Stalin's Purges, 1935
An official Soviet
era explanation of the arrest and execution of thousands of
perceived enemies of the state.
The Purge
Presentation by Professor Gerhard
Rempel, Western New England College.
1934 Criminal
Code of the RSFSR
Article on the working of the law with links
to actual sections
The
Secret Police
A
clear website devoted to the Gulags and the Terror but very slow to
load.
"Purges and Hysteria in the
Soviet Union"
Account by by Frank E. Smitha, 1998
Another
View of Stalin - The Great Purge
The Purges as seen by a committed
Stalinist
"Life Is Not Easy, Damn It!" Stepan Podlubnyi (1914- ), born in Ukraine to wealthy peasants.
After 1917 his father was stripped of all but a part of his land
because of his "kulak" origins. From 1932 Podlubnyi was an informer
for the Secret Police. In this passage, he recalls the year 1937,
the beginning of the Great Terror in the Soviet Union, and the
arrest of Podlubnyi's mother. From the
Mosaic site.
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The Short Course
The official
line of Stalin in justifying the Purges.
This is the official explanation from textbooks published before Stalin's
excesses were repudiated by his successors. From Goucher
College.
Stalin Documents:
Trotsky Documents:
This US Library of
Congress site contains the first significant number of documents
shown anywhere from what may be the most important new source of
primary materials for understanding the history of the twentieth
century. These documents provide an unprecedented inside look at the
workings of one of the largest, most powerful and long-lived
political machines of the modern era. They include material from
archives that had been key working files of the Communist rulers
until August 1991: the archives of the Central Committee, the
Presidential archive, and the KGB. Key sections include:
Show trials
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 And they all
confessed ...
Interesting
account of the key trials by Gudrun Persson,
Historian. She writes articles about Russia in the Swedish
press.
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Last Plea
of N.I.
Bukharin, from ”Report of Court Proceedings in the Case of the
Anti-Soviet ’Bloc of Rights and Trotskyites’ heard before the
Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the U.S.S.R., Moscow,
March 2-13, 1938” (Publ. People’s Commissariat of Justice of the
U.S.S.R., Moscow, 1938).
Gulags
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