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  ^[1] This refers to the programme of the R.C.P.(B.) adopted at the Eighth Party Congress, section: "The Economic Sphere," and to the resolution adopted by the Ninth Congress of the R.C.P.(B.) on "The Question of the Trade Unions and Their Organisation" (see Resolutions and Decisions of C.P.S.U.(B.) Congresses, Conterences and Central Committee Plenums, Part I, 1941, pp. 28g-gr, 357-40).    [p.1]

  ^[2] 0n the Eighth Congress of the R.C.P.(B.) and its resolutions on the military and other questions, see History of the C.P.S.U.(B.), Short Course, Moscow, 1952, pp. 358-63, and also Resolutions and Decisions of C.P.S.U.(B.) Congresses, Conferences and Central Committee Plenums, Part I, 1941, pp. 280-313. At this congress, J. V. Stalin delivered a speech on the military question (see Works, F.L.P.H., Moscow, 1953, Vol. 4, pp. 258-59); and he was a member of the Military Commission set up by the congress to draft the resolution on this question.    [p.3]

  ^[3] This refers to the joint meeting of the R.C.P.(B.) groups at the Eighth Congress of Soviets, in the All-Russian Central Council of Trade Unions, and in the Moscow Gubernia Council of Trade Unions, that was held on December 30, 1920.    [p.9]