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The Latest Bolshevik Zigzag
Fischer, Louis | April 30, 1930 issue

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Nothing must be allowed to create the false impression that the Soviet Government has abandoned its program of completely collectivizing agriculture. The Bolsheviks have no choice. They can (1) allow village productivity to continue at its present low level, or (2) give the individual mujik freedom to become rich, rent land, and hire labor, or (3) organize agriculture cooperatively. But the Russian village cannot today yield sufficient surpluses for feeding the cities and for export; the rise through personal enrichment of a class of private capitalistic farmers would constitute a political and, more particularly, an economic menace to bolshevism. There remains the third alternative of land cooperatives.

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AGRICULTURE & state; COLLECTIVIZATION of agriculture; LAND, Nationalization of; REVOLUTIONARIES -- Soviet Union; SOVIET Union -- Politics & government -- 1917-1936; SOVIET Union
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