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Stalin’s article ‘Dizzy with Success: Problems of the Kolkhoz Movement’ was published in Pravda of March 2, 1930, together with the revised Statute of the agricultural artel.1 The article had three major objectives. First, to insist that the voluntary principle should be restored:
The kolkhoz must not be imposed by force. That would be stupid and reactionary. The kolkhoz movement must be based on the active support of the main mass of the peasantry.
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Davies, R.W. (1980). Collectivisation in Retreat, March–June 1930. In: The Socialist Offensive. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-10253-2_6
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