Originally published as Na s’ezde i v strane (At the Congress and in the Country), Byulleten’ oppozitsii, No. 25/26 (1931), pp. 9–32. [1]
This translation originally published in Critique 13, 1981.
© 1981 Critique. Published here with the kind permission of Hillel Ticktin.
The translation is by Donald Filtzer.
In the published version of the translation the words “milliard” & “billion” were used to express the number “1,000,000,000” – this has been standardized to “billion”.
Transcribed by Ted Crawford and marked up by Einde O’Callaghan for the Marxists’ Internet Archive.
Preliminary Remarks
Briefly on the Sixteenth Congress
In the Country
Industry, Quantity and Quality
Quantitative Increases in Production and Output
The Question of Product Quality
Shortage of Skilled Workers
The Relation between Industrial Backwardness and Agriculture
Accumulation and Its Sources: Capital Construction
Falls in Production Costs and Product Quality
Increasing the Intensity of Labour
Funds for Capital Construction
The Progress of Capital Construction
Some Results of Industrialization
Electrification
Transport
Finance and Money Circulation
The Situation in the Countryside
Some Results and Proposals
Translator’s Afterword
1. Rakovsky’s inconsistent headings and overly long paragraphs have been tidied up in this translation. Wherever three dots appear these were in the original. All insertions by the editor and translator have been placed in square brackets. The footnotes are Rakovsky’s unless otherwise marked.
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