FOREWORD............................................................................................................................................................................. 5 INTRODUCTION: THE IMPORTANCE OF STALIN........................................................................................................6 STALIN IS OF VITAL IMPORTANCE IN THE FORMER SOCIALIST COUNTRIES................................................................................................9 STALIN IS AT THE CENTER OF POLITICAL DEBATES IN SOCIALIST COUNTRIES............................................................................................9 STALIN'S WORK IS OF CRUCIAL IMPORTANCE IN THE THIRD WORLD..................................................................................................... 9 STALIN'S WORK TAKES ON NEW MEANING GIVEN THE SITUATION CREATED SINCE CAPITALIST RESTORATION IN CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE .............................................................................................................................................................................................. 11 IN COMMUNIST PARTIES AROUND THE WORLD, THE IDEOLOGICAL STRUGGLE AROUND THE STALIN QUESTION PRESENTS MANY COMMON CHARACTERISTICS...................................................................................................................................................................... 11 THE YOUNG STALIN FORGES HIS ARMS..................................................................................................................... 13 STALIN'S ACTIVITIES IN 1900—1917..........................................................................................................................................15 THE `SOCIALISTS' AND REVOLUTION............................................................................................................................................. 20 STALIN DURING THE CIVIL WAR..................................................................................................................................................22 LENIN'S `WILL'........................................................................................................................................................................ 25 BUILDING SOCIALISM IN ONE COUNTRY...................................................................................................................32 SOCIALIST INDUSTRIALIZATION.................................................................................................................................. 39 HEROISM AND ENTHUSIASM.........................................................................................................................................................40 CLASS WAR.............................................................................................................................................................................. 43 AN ECONOMIC MIRACLE............................................................................................................................................................. 46 COLLECTIVIZATION..........................................................................................................................................................48 FROM REBUILDING PRODUCTION TO SOCIAL CONFRONTATION.............................................................................................................48 Weakness of the party in the countryside.........................................................................................................................49 The character of the Russian peasant............................................................................................................................. 50 New class differentiation................................................................................................................................................. 51 Who controlled the market wheat?..................................................................................................................................52 Towards confrontation.....................................................................................................................................................52 Bukharin's position..........................................................................................................................................................53 Betting on the kolkhoz .................................................................................................................................................... 54 ... or betting on the individual peasant?..........................................................................................................................55 THE FIRST WAVE OF COLLECTIVIZATION......................................................................................................................................... 56 The kulak......................................................................................................................................................................... 56 The kolkhozy surpass the kulaks......................................................................................................................................57 A fiery mass movement.................................................................................................................................................... 58 The war against the kulak............................................................................................................................................... 59 The essential rôle of the most oppressed masses.............................................................................................................60 THE ORGANIZATIONAL LINE ON COLLECTIVIZATION.......................................................................................................................... 61 The Party apparatus in the countryside.......................................................................................................................... 61 Extraordinary organizational measures..........................................................................................................................62 The 25,000....................................................................................................................................................................... 63 The 25,000 against the bureaucracy............................................................................................................................... 64 The 25,000 against the kulaks......................................................................................................................................... 65 The 25,000 and the organization of agricultural production..........................................................................................65 THE POLITICAL DIRECTION OF COLLECTIVIZATION............................................................................................................................66 The November 1929 resolution........................................................................................................................................68 Reject Bukharin's opportunism........................................................................................................................................68 New difficulties, new tasks...............................................................................................................................................69 The January 5, 1930 resolution.......................................................................................................................................70 `DEKULAKIZATION'.................................................................................................................................................................... 71 Kulak rumors and indoctrination.................................................................................................................................... 72 What should be done with the kulaks?............................................................................................................................ 73 Struggle to the end...........................................................................................................................................................74 The resolution on dekulakization.....................................................................................................................................75 The kulak offensive picks up strength..............................................................................................................................76 Kautsky and the `kulak revolution'.................................................................................................................................. 77 `DIZZY WITH SUCCESS'...............................................................................................................................................................78 Stalin corrects..................................................................................................................................................................79 Rectify and consolidate..................................................................................................................................................