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Opposition to Stalin and his policies in party circles was at its maximum in 1932–4 — the years of famine and its aftermath. The anti-Stalinist Ryutin platform, produced by a small group of dissident Communists in the autumn of 1932, was widely known among the Moscow and Leningrad élite.’ New evidence has confirmed the rumours that a substantial number of delegates to the XVII Party Congress in January-February 1934 failed to cast their votes for Stalin as a member of the central committee. Even the extremely cautious official party account issued in 1989 concluded that 166 delegates had failed to vote in the elections for the central committee, a most unusual event at a party congress.2
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See for example L. R. Graham, The Soviet Academy of Sciences and the Communist Party, 1927–1932 (Princeton, 1967 ), p. 201.
See Davies (1989), pp. 86–7, and R. Marsh, History and Literature in Contemporary Russia (Basingstoke and London, 1995), pp. 88–91.
See R. W. Davies, The Socialist Offensive: the Collectivisation of Agriculture, 1929–1930 (Basingstoke and London, 1980 ), pp. 255–61.
E. A. Osokina, lerarkhiya potrebleniya: o zhizni lyudei v usloviyakh stalinskogo snabzheniya, 1928–1935gg. (1993), p. 26.
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Davies, R.W. (1997). Opposition to Stalinism. In: Soviet History in the Yeltsin Era. Studies in Russian and East European History and Society. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-25420-0_14
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