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This chapter examines the changes brought about in the membership of the rural communist party by the impact of collectivisation, and considers how far these changes were adequate to the new demands placed upon the party. T.H. Rigby has distinguished several processes at work in the transformation of the rural communist party membership: the purging of peasant communists resistant to collectivisation; the recruitment of non-party activists in the formative phase of the collective farms; and individual communists joining collectives.1 This useful framework, with slight modifications will be employed here.
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T.P. Bernstein, ‘Leadership and Mobilization in the Collectivization of Agriculture in China and Russia: A Comparison’, unpublished Ph.D. thesis, Columbia University 1970, p. 249.
K. Mezhol’, Partiinoe stroitel’stvo, No. 10, May 1930, p. 16 puts the proletarian layer in the rural party in the spring of 1930 at 23.2 per cent.
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Thorniley, D. (1988). The Rural Communist Party 1929–32: Membership, Location and Occupation. In: The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Rural Communist Party, 1927–39. Studies in Soviet History and Society. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-19111-6_4
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