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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 06 January 2010
We cannot celebrate the supposed victory of non-capitalist evolution in agriculture at the very moment when we are having to make supplementary concessions precisely to the capitalist elements in agriculture.
(G. Zinoviev, Leninizm (1925) cited in E. H. Carr, Socialism in One Country, 1924–1926, vol. 1, p. 326)You see, down in the district Soviet they think of me as a bourzhui, because I have built a decent house and have cultivated this fine orchard. I have been told that they are planning to lay a special tax on the orchard, twenty gold roubles … That's what Russia is coming to, my friend. A man cannot even work his head off to improve himself a bit without being called a bourzhui or a koulack and burdened with taxes that break his back.
(The “richest man in the village” cited by Maurice Hindus, Broken Earth (New York, 1926), p. 142)Every worker and peasant in a car within fifteen to twenty years!
(V. Osinsky in Pravda, 20 July 1927)After three years of NEP, most of the institutions and practices introduced or adumbrated in 1921 were in place. Agricultural products and industrial goods were being marketed through an extensive network of state and cooperative institutions as well as private traders.
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