Resolutions and Decisions of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Volume 3 : : The Stalin Years 1929-1953 / / ed. by Robert McNeal.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
• HerausgeberIn: McNeal, Robert,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2019]; ©1974
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Heritage
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (290 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Editor's Preface --; Contents --; Introduction --; Plenum of the Central Committee 10-17 November 1929 --; 3-4 On the Rate of Collectivization and State Assistance to Kolkhoz Construction 5 January 1930 --; 3-14 On the Construction of the Magnitogorsk Metallurgical Plant 25 January 1931 --; 3-17 On the Reconstruction of Literary-Artistic Organizations 23 April 1932 --; Joint Plenum of the Central Committee and Central Control Commission 7-12 January 1933 --; XVII Party Congress 26 January - 10 February 1934 --; 3-26 On the Terrorist Activities of the Trotskyite-Zinovievite Counter-Revolutionary Bloc 29 July 1936 --; Plenum of the Central Committee 23 February - 5 March 1937 --; Plenum of the Central Committee n, 14, 18, 20 January 1938 --; 3-31 The Third Five-Year Plan for the Development of the National Economy of the USSR (1938-42) 20 March 1939 --; 3-34 On the Organization of Fighting in the Rear of German Troops 18 July 1941 --; 3.36 On Deficiencies in Political Work among the Populace of the Western Oblasts of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic 27 September 1944 --; 3-37 On Agitation and Propaganda Work of Party Organizations in Connection with the Adoption of the Law on the Five-Year Plan for the Restoration and Development of the National Economy of the USSR in the Period 1946-50 27 March 1946 --; Plenum of the Central Committee 21-26 February 1947 --; 3-41 On V. Muradeli's Opera 'The Great Friendship' 10 February 1948 --; 3-42 On the Journal Bolshevik 13 July 1949 --; 3-43 On the Enlargement of Small Kolkhozes and the Tasks of Party Organizations 30 May 1950 --; XIX Party Congress 5-14 October 1952 --; Appendix --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781487599515; 9783110490947
• DOI: 10.3138/9781487599515
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Robert McNeal.

This set of four volumes is an indispensable reference work for the study of modern Russia in general and Soviet Communism in particular. Ever since its foundation on the eve of the twentieth century, the organization now called the Communist Party of the Soviet Union has been embodying its major policies in documents called 'resolutions and decisions.' These form a much more continuous and extensive record of the evolution of Soviet Communism than the writings of any single leader, and the standard Soviet anthology of these materials has gone through eight editions over a fifty-year period. Yet most of this essential material has been available only in Russian, and even in that language the standard editions have been marred by selectivity and editorial comment that is often politically motivated. At last students of modern Russian studies have access to a multi-volume work that not only presents the most important Communist Party resolutions and decisions in English, but also amplifies the standard Soviet anthology in important respects and provides editorial explanation that is independent of Kremlin politics. The rich store of materials in these four volumes ranges from the formation of the party to the fall of Khrushchev, and it deals with a wide range of issues. The clearly organized volumes each contain a major introductory essay as well as shorter background essays on each party congress, conference or Central Committee plenum. The documents approved by these meetings are often fundamental in importance, but the centralist operation of the party in power has been such that many of the most vital decisions have been issued in the name of the Central Committee when there was no meeting of that body at all. It is one of the signal achievements of these volumes that the selection of materials included was based on a list of all known part decisions, whether or not they have been included in the main Soviet reference work. The four volumes in this series are edited as an integral set. Each contains a subject index in which Russian abbreviations and acronymic names are translated. Tables summarizing the personnel of the main party executive bodies since 1917 are also provided. At the same time each of the volumes is built around a coherent period in the development of Russian Communism, and each reflects the special features of its time. Volume 3 treats the Stalin era, the early phase of which witnessed a new degree of party intervention in agriculture, industry, and cultural affairs. The ambivalent relation between the party and Stalin's great purge emerges in party decisions of the later thirties, including an archival document never published in the Soviet Union and some little known material on the Central Committee plenum of February-March 1937. The Zhdanov campaign in the arts following the World War is also represented by the party resolutions translated in this volume.