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General Appraisal of ’Soviet Socialism’

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The Soviet government is proud of its system of national economy, which is officially characterized as a’ socialist system.’ The explanatory memorandum published in Soviet newspapers on January 30, 1939, simultaneously with the economic program for the future, stated: ‘We have fully adopted a socialist system’; ‘We have liquidated the peasant, the industrialist, the merchant.’

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  1. D. H. Cole, Europe, Russia and the Future, V. Gollanz Ltd., London, 1942, pp. 18–19.

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  2. Anton Ciliga, The Russian Enigma, London, George Routlege and Sons, Ltd., 940, pp. 92, 266. The same in French—Au pays du grand mensonge, 1938.

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© 1956 Martinus Nijhoff, The Hague, Netherlands

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Guins, G.C. (1956). General Appraisal of ’Soviet Socialism’. In: Communism on the Decline. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-0501-7_11

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