Preface
JOINT PLENUM OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE AND CENTRAL CONTROL COMMISSION OF THE C.P.S.U.(B.), July 29-August 9, 1927
The International Situation and the Defence of the U.S.S.R. Speech Delivered on August 1
I. The Attacks of the Opposition on Sections of the CominternII. About China
III. The Anglo-Soviet Unity Committee
IV. The Threat of War and the Defence of the U.S.S.R
Speech Delivered on August 5
With Reference to the Opposition’s “Declaration” of August 8, 1927. Speech Delivered on August 9INTERVIEW WITH THE FIRST AMERICAN LABOUR DELEGATION, September 9, 1927
I. Questions Put by the Delegation and Comrade Stalin’s Answers
II. Questions Put by Comrade Stalin and the Delegates’ Replies
TO COMRADE M. I. ULYANOVA. REPLY TO COMRADE L. MIKHELSON
THE POLITICAL COMPLEXION OF THE RUSSIAN OPPOSITION. Excerpt from a Speech Delivered at a Joint Meeting of the Presidium of the Executive Committee of the Comintern and the International Control Commission, September 27, 1927
SYNOPSIS OF THE ARTICLE “THE INTERNATIONAL CHARACTER OF THE OCTOBER REVOLUTION”
THE TROTSKYIST OPPOSITION BEFORE AND NOW. Speech Delivered at a Meeting of the Joint Plenum of the Central Committee and Central Control Commission of the C.P.S.U.(B.), October 23, 1927
I. Some Minor Questions
II. The Opposition’s “Platform”
III. Lenin on Discussions and Oppositions in General
IV. The Opposition and the “Third Force”
V. How the Opposition Is “Preparing” for the Congress
VI. From Leninism to Trotskyism
VII. Some of the Most Important Results of the Party’s Policy During the Past Few Years
VIII. Back to Axelrod
INTERVIEW WITH FOREIGN WORKERS’ DELEGATIONS, November 5, 1927
THE INTERNATIONAL CHARACTER OF THE OCTOBER REVOLUTION. On the Occasion of the Tenth Anniversary of the October Revolution
TO THE PARTY CONFERENCE OF THE MOSCOW MILITARY AREA
THE PARTY AND THE OPPOSITION. Speech Delivered at the Sixteenth Moscow Gubernia Party Conference, November 23, 1927
I. Brief Results of the Discussion
II. The Working Class and the Peasantry
III. The Party and the Dictatorship of the Proletariat
IV. The Prospects of Our Revolution
V. What Next?
THE FIFTEENTH CONGRESS OF THE C.P.S.U.(B.), December 2-19, 1927
Political Report of the Central Committee, December 3
I. The Growing Crisis of World Capitalism and the External Situation of the U.S.S.R
1. The Economics of World Capitalism and the Intensification of the Struggle for Foreign Markets
2. The International Policy of Capitalism and the Preparation of New Imperialist Wars
3. The State of the World Revolutionary Movement and the Harbingers of a New Revolutionary Upsurge
4. The Capitalist World and the U.S.S.R.
5. Conclusions
II. The Successes of Socialist Construction and the Internal Situation in the U.S.S.R
1. The National Economy as a Whole
2. The Rate of Development of Our Large-Scale Socialist Industry
3. The Rate of Development of Our Agriculture
4. Classes, the State Apparatus and the Country’s Cultural Development
III. The Party and the Opposition
1. The State of the Party
2. The Results of the Discussion
3. The Fundamental Divergences Between the Party and the Opposition.
4. What Next?
IV. General Summary
Reply to the Discussion on the Political Report of the Central Committee, December 7
I. Concerning Rakovsky’s Speech
II. Concerning Kamenev’s Speech
III. The Summing Up
STATEMENT TO FOREIGN PRESS CORRESPONDENTS CONCERNING THE COUNTERFEIT “ARTICLES BY STALIN”
Biographical Chronicle (August-December 1927)
