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  ^[99] The Joint Plenum of the Central Committee and the Central Control Commission of the C.P.S.U.(B.J, which took place January 7-12, 1933, discussed the following questions: the results of the First Five-Year Plan and the national-economic plan for 1933 -- the first year of the Second Five-Year Plan period (reports of Comrades Stalin, Molotov and Kuibyshev); the aims and tasks of the Political Departments of the machine and tractor stations and state farms; inner-Party questions. At the sitting of the plenum on January 7, Stalin made a report on "The Results of the First Five-Year Plan" and at the sitting on January 11 he delivered a speech on "Work in the Countryside." In its decisions the plenum emphasized the significance of the results of the fulfilment of the First

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Five-Year Plan in four years as the most outstanding event in current history. The plenum pointed out that the slogan of new construction in the Second Five-Year Plan period must be supplemented by the slogan of mastering the new undertakings in industry and of organizationally strengthening the new undertakings in agriculture. The plenum instructed all economic, Party and trade-union organizations to concentrate their main attention on the complete fulfilment of the assignments for raising labour productivity and lowering production costs. In order to consolidate politically the machine and tractor stations and state farms, enhance their political role and influence in the countryside and improve the work of the Party organizations in the collective farms and state farms, the plenum adopted a decision to organize Political Departments at the machine and tractor stations and state farms. The plenum approved the decision of the Political Bureau of the C.C. to conduct a purge of the Party during 1933 and to discontinue admission to the Party until the end of the purge. (For the resolutions of the joint plenum of the C.C. and the C.C.C., C.P.S.U.(B.), see Resolutions and Decisions of C.P.S.U. Congresses, Conferences and Central Committee Plenums, in Russian, 1953, Part II, pp. 717-42.)    [p.578]

  ^[100] The New York Times -- a bourgeois daily newspaper, influential press organ of the American capitalist monopolies; associated with the so-called Democratic Party; published in New York since 1851.    [p.581]

  ^[101] The Daily Telegraph -- a British reactionary daily newspaper, close to the Conservative Party leadership, published in London since 1855. In 1937 it merged with the Morning Post and since then has been issued in London and Manchester under the name of The Daily Telegraph and Morning Post.    [p.581]

  ^[102] Gazeta Polska (Polish Gazette ) -- a Polish bourgeois newspaper, mouthpiece of the fascist Pilsudski clique. It was issued in Warsaw from 1929 to 1939.    [p.581]

  ^[103] The Financial Times -- a British bourgeois daily newspaper, organ of the industrial and financial circles of the City, published in London since 1888.    [p.581]

  ^[104] Politica -- an Italian social and political magazine that reflected the views of the Italian big bourgeoisie. It began publication in Rome in 1918.    [p.582]

  ^[105] Current History -- a magazine propagating the views of American bourgeois historians and ideologists of the U.S. State Department's aggressive foreign policy. It began publication in New York in 1914..    [p.582]

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  ^[106] Le Temps (The Times ) -- a French bourgeois daily newspaper, which from 1931 was the property of the Comité des Forges (the heavy industry association). It was published in Paris from 1861 to 1942.    [p.582]

  ^[107] The Round Table -- a British bourgeois magazine dealing with questions of the colonial policy of the British Empire and international relations. Published in London since 1910, it expressed the views of conservative circles of the British bourgeoisie.    [p.583]

  ^[108] Die Neue Preie Presse (New Free Press ) -- an Austrian bourgeois newspaper, which reflected the views of the commercial and industrial bourgeoisie and of banking circles. It was published in Vienna from 864 to 1939.    [p.584]

  ^[109] The Nation -- an American social-political and literary magazine of a liberal trend, reflecting petty-bourgeois opinion. It has been published in New York since 1865.    [p.584]

  ^[110] Forward -- a trade-unionist weekly of the "Left"-reformist brand. It started publication in Glasgow (Scotland) in 1906.    [p.585]

  ^[111] At the end of 1931, imperialist Japan, which was striving to set up its rule in China and the Far East, invaded Northeast China without declaration of war. The occupation of this territory was accompanied by a concentration of Japanese troops at the frontier of the U.S.S.R. and the mobilization of Whiteguard spies and bandits intended for use in a war against the Soviet Union. The Japanese imperialists were preparing positions suitable for attack on the U.S.S.R., aiming at the seizure of the Soviet Far East and Siberia.    [p.596]

  ^[112] This refers to the decision of the Central Executive Committee and the Council of People's Commissars of the U.S.S.R. dated August 22, 1932, on "The Struggle Against Speculation." The decision was published in Pravda, No. 233, August 23, 1932.    [p.620]

  ^[113] This refers to the decision of the Central Executive Committee and the Council of People's Commissars of the U.S.S.R. on "Protection of the Property of State Enterprises, Collective Farms and Co-operatives and the Consolidation of Public (Socialist) Property," adopted on August 7, 1932. This decision, written by Stalin, states: "The Central Executive Committee and the Council of People's Commissars of the U.S.S.R. hold that public property (state, collective-farm and co-operative property) is the basis of the Soviet system; it is sacred and inviolable, and persons committing offences against public property must be considered enemies of the people. In view of this it is a prime duty of the organs of Soviet power to wage a determined struggle against those who steal public prop-

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erty." The decision was published in Pravda, No. 218, August 8, 1932.    [p.625]