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Stalinism as a Way of Life: A Narrative in Documents
  • Kuibyshev's observations on the shock worker movement
  • Speech by A. N. Voronin to First Congress of Shock Brigades, December 1929
  • Speech by G. B. Gelman to First Congress of Shock Brigades
  • Personal letter by a young Leningrad worker from Magnitogorsk
  • Letter to Pravda included in summary report “The Sukharevites Are in Charge”
  • Letter to Pravda on supply situation in Mordovia
  • Letter of complaint to Pravda from B. N. Kniazev, Tula
  • Anonymous letter of complaint to Pravda from Aktyubinsk, Kazakhstan
  • Letter to Pravda from I. P. Koniukhov, Western Oblast
  • Letter to Stalin and Kalinin (ostensibly) from workers at Red Putilovets factory, Leningrad
  • Letter to Pravda included in summary report “Why Are You Silent About Your Crimes?”
  • Letter from peasant in the village of Dabuzha in Kaluga Okrug to Pravda
  • Letter on “extra-hard assignments” for independent farmers from M. Ye. Bocharnikova, Central Black Earth Oblast
  • Letter from a group of exiled women to President Kalinin
  • Anonymous letter from Vologda to Kalinin concerning exiles
  • Letter to Pravda on collectivization in Kaluga Okrug
  • Letter to Pravda on collectivization in Lower Volga Krai
  • Report of M. P. Kichigin on collective farm chairman in Central Black Earth Oblast
  • Report to Kolkhoz Center on collectivization in Belorussia
  • Report on expulsion from a collective farm in Middle Volga Krai
  • Letter on rationing on collective farms
  • Letter from Gaidamaka concerning 1932 famine
  • Letter from V. M. Kovalchuk on flight from collective farms in North Caucasus Krai
  • Anonymous letter to Izvestia on rumors in North Caucasus Krai
  • Letter of complaint to Izvestia from A. P. Kokurin, Mordovia
  • Letter to VTsIK from A. P. Nikishin on starvation in Middle Volga Krai
  • Letter from M. Prokunin on starvation in Middle Volga Krai
  • Letter to Izvestia from I. Litvinov on refugees from Ukraine in Central Black Earth Oblast
  • Letter from I. Gusev on food shortages in North Caucasus Krai
  • Anonymous report of conversation at “Female Worker” factory, Leningrad
  • Letter from Bochkaryov, Middle Volga Krai, on specialists
  • Memorandum of N. Malstev to Ya. Rudzutak and Ye. Yaroslavsky on purge of libraries
  • Ye. Yaroslavsky to Politburo on library purge
  • A. Stetsky to Politburo on tear-off calendars
  • A. Stetsky on lack of vigilance among TASS workers
  • Report on penal labor colony in Nizhni Novgorod
  • Report accompanying prisoner appeals
  • Memorandum to Vyshinsky on incarceration of minors
  • Petition from F. G. Kolgushkin for reinstatement in party
  • Letter from Narkomtorg workers opposing colleague's reinstatement in party
  • Letter to NK RKI denouncing Narkofin employees
  • Letter to Stalin denouncing peasant promotee
  • Anonymous letter to Kalinin on purge in Abkhazia
  • Informational report on response to elimination of okrugs
  • OGPU report on attitudes of economic managers
  • “On violations of revolutionary legality in Odessa Oblast”
  • Party verification of railroad employees
  • Letter from M. Matiukhin to Kalinin on disarray in energy sector
  • Excerpt from minutes of party purge committee within Narkomput’
  • Letter from soviet chairman G. S. Onishchenko to Kalinin
  • Kalinin's reply to Onishchenko
  • Party review of higher educational institutions in Azov-Black Sea Krai
  • Memorandum from A. Stetsky on counterrevolutionary attitudes among students in Rybinsk
  • Memorandum from A. Stetsky on social and economic sciences faculty
  • Memorandum “Concerning the Moral and Political State of Pedagogical Institutes”
  • Memorandum to Orgburo “Concerning the Work of Glavlit”
  • Memorandum from L. Mekhlis to TsK secretaries “Concerning the Political Dictionary for Workers and Collective Farm Members”
  • Letter of denunciation from S. A. Drakin to TsK
  • Letter of denunciation from A. B. Krikunchik to TsK
  • From TsK investigation of A. D. Bruskin
  • Letter from V. I. Vasil’ev to Krest’ianskaia Gazeta on discussion of the constitution
  • Letter from kolkhoznik P. I. Voronov to Krest’ianskaia Gazeta proposing revisions to the constitution
  • Letter from rural correspondent P. G. Shcheglov to Krest’ianskaia Gazeta proposing revisions to the constitution
  • Letter of appreciation from F. M. Postnikov to Krest’ianskaia Gazeta
  • Letter of complaint of F. M. Plindina, Voronezh Oblast
  • Letter from K. F. Shestakova to Krest’ianskaia Gazeta proposing revisions to the constitution
  • Letter from independent farmer I. N. Sosenkov to Krest’ianskaia Gazeta proposing revision to the constitution
  • Petition to Putivl’ RIK, Chernigov Oblast
  • Excerpt from summary report on religious activity among Germans in Volga Region
  • Letter from party organizer V. S. Kolesnikov to Krest’ianskaia Gazeta on “perverse” understandings of the constitution
  • Letter from S. Kirillovsky praising the constitution
  • Letter from Kolkhoznik V. Ye. Mel’nikov to Krest’ianskaia Gazeta proposing revisions to the constitution
  • Letter from kolkhoznik I. A. Tiushin proposing a Peasants' Union
  • Letter from kolkhoznik N. G. Zhiliaev proposing revision to the constitution
  • Letter from kolkhoznik I. Savurin proposing revisions to the constitution
  • Collective letter from women of Dnepropetrovsk Oblast to TsK VKP(b) on alimony and libertinism
  • Proposals on demographic policy submitted by L. V. Kashkin, Leningrad
  • Anonymous poem sent to the Eighteenth Congress of the VKP(b)
  • Letter from I. K. Karniush to Krest’ianskaia Gazeta outlining the history of modern Russia
  • Clinical case recorded at Voronezh Medical Institute
  • Letter from P. P. Zagumennov to Krest’ianskaia Gazeta on Short Course in the History of the VKP(b)
  • First letter from S. Mukhartov to Krest’ianskaia Gazeta on the death of G. Mukhartova
  • Second letter from S. Mukhartov
  • Letter from Krest’ianskaia Gazeta to procurator of RSFSR
  • Yudin's recollections of OGIZ purge
  • Memorandum to Yezhov on dismissals of medical personnel
  • Letter from Yeva Friedländer to Presidium of Supreme Soviet
  • Letter from Kh. Ivanova to TsK VKP(b) on NKVD
  • Testimony of Traibman during interrogation
  • Letter from Anastasia Koch to Bulganin
  • Letter from L. S> Tsel’merovsky to Presidium of Supreme Soviet
  • Letter from V. Antipov to TsK VKP(b) on banished families
  • Letter to TsK VKP(b) on arrests in Tula
  • Letter from V. Chernousov to TsK VKP(b) on removal of Yezhov
  • Letter from P. A. Misov to Kalinin on overheard conversation
  • Memorandum from G. L. Skriabin to Stalin on Kuibyshev Obkom
  • Letter of appeal from K. Pol’ to Stalin
  • Letter from M. I. Apen’ko to Kalinin on kolkhoz market in Rostov Oblast
  • Letter from S. Abuladze to Molotov
  • Telegram from Anisimov to Kalinin requesting wife's abortion
  • Copy of letter in report on resettlement from Chuvash ASSR to Altai Krai
  • Report on exiled Poles in Kustanai Oblast, Kazakh SSR
  • Report “On Manifestations of Bourgeois Nationalism and Great-Power Chauvinism” in Kabardino-Balkaria
  • Letter to TsK VKP(b) “On the Results of an Investigation of Mass Evasions of Service in the Red Army by Draftees in the Chechen-Ingush ASSR”
  • NKVD summary report on reactions of Cossacks in Migulin Raion to lifting restrictions for service in Red Army
  • Letter from Red Navy sailor I. Kotov to Stalin on confiscations of books and postcards
  • Letter from N. Timokhin to Krest’ianskaia Gazeta on defense measures on kolkhoz in Tula Oblast
  • Letter to Pravda on “Mistakes in … Viipuri Party Gorkum”
  • Denunciation of NKVD officer in Peremysl’, Western Ukraine
  • Memorandum from NK RKI to Stalin on complaints of independent farmers in Mordovian Autonomous Oblast
  • Letter from independent farmer Grebenev to Krest’ianskaia Gazeta on harassment by local officials
  • Letter of complaint from independent farmer O. P. Semyonova to Krest’ianskaia Gazeta
  • Letter from rural correspondent Glukhov to Krest’ianskaia Gazeta on “A Happy Life”
  • Letter from P. G. Shatrov to Krest’ianskaia Gazeta on benefits of Soviet rule
  • Letter from M. Matiukhin to Kalinin on conditions in his home district
  • Letter from Malov to Krest’ianskaia Gazeta on kolkhoz labor in Komi ASSR
  • Essay on life in Voronezh Oblast village sent by rural correspondent Grebennikov to Krest’ianskaia Gazeta
  • Report of land management expert P. P. Anisimov to Narkomzem on wrecking in Arkhangel’sk Oblast
  • Letter of rural correspondent A. P. Alekseev to Krest’ianskaia Gazeta on violations of law on Northern Oblast kolkhozes
  • Appeal from kolkhoz board in Ivanovo Oblast sent to Krest’ianskaia Gazeta
  • Letter of complaint from agronomist G. I. Taranov sent to Krest’ianskaia Gazeta
  • Letter from ex-kolkhoznik P. S. Rogudilin to Krest’ianskaia Gazeta on abuses on K. Marx Kolkhoz, Orel Oblast
  • Unpublished article “Violators of Stalin's Statutes of Kolkhoz Life”
  • Letter from kolkhoznik I. Pirogov to Krest’ianskaia Gazeta asking for explanation of kolkhoz policy
  • Letter from S. N. Gretsky to Krest’ianskaia Gazeta seeking restoration of kolkhoz membership
  • Letter from kolkhoz chairman P. P. Sergeev to Krest’ianskaia Gazeta on his persecution
  • From NKVD summary report on kolkhozes in Migulin Raion
  • Report of NKVD Migulin Raion branch chief, Sergeant Osipov, on suicide attempt and food shortages on kolkhozes
  • Letter of appeal from five female kolkhoz farmers in Ivanovo Oblast to Krest’ianskaia Gazeta
  • Letter from D. A. Khalatov to Krest’ianskaia Gazeta on abuses on kolkhoz in Orel Oblast
  • Letter from V. I. Guliaev to Krest’ianskaia Gazeta on reception of new settlers in Dnepropetrovsk Oblast
  • Letter from A. I. Poluektov to Krest’ianskaia Gazeta on his life and Dzerzhinsky Kolkhoz, Voronezh Oblast
  • Letter of denunciation from village schoolteacher Ye. Koniukh to Krest’ianskaia Gazeta
  • Letter from livestock and dairy sovkhoz worker V. A. Sychov to Odintsov
  • Official letter to Armavir Dairy and Meat Sovkhoz no. 32 administration
  • Letter from V. A. Sychov to Trubacheev, trade union chairman
  • Autobiographical letter from livestock and dairy sovkhoz worker K. F. Maksimovskaia to Odintsov
  • Letter from K. F. Maksimovskaia to Odintsov
  • Letter from O. S. Mokrousova to Krest’ianskaia Gazeta
  • Letter of Krupskaia to Postyshev
  • Letter from thirteen-year-old I. Nemchinov to Kalinin
  • Letter from student at combine-operator school to his uncle and aunt, forwarded to Krest’ianskaia Gazeta
  • Collective letter from schoolchildren at Volkhovstroi to Kalinin
  • Letter from Krest’ianskaia Gazeta correspondent Finogenov to deputy editor Porel’shtein
  • Memorandum to representative of TsK KPK on anti-Soviet statements by students in Mordovia
  • Memorandum to Stalin, Andreev, and Kosarev on suicide of teacher in Omsk Oblast
  • Salutatory letter from Young Pioneers to Kalinin
  • Letter from L. Zarubina and Zh. Smirnova to Kalinin
  • Letter from Young Pioneer H. Roland to Kalinin
  • Letter of denunciation from Young Pioneers and Komsomol members to director of forestry department
  • From stenographic report of Orgburo session “On Young Pioneer Work”
  • Speech by Kosarev at Orgburo session “On Young Pioneer Work”
  • Speech by Krupskaia at Orgburo session “On Young Pioneer Work”
  • Letter of L. M. Pisanka to Children's Commission of VTsIK on disappearance of daughter
  • Report of medical team to Children's Commission of VTsIK on conditions in Moscow children's homes
  • Memorandum from TsK of Komsomol on Narkompros children's homes
  • Memorandum to deputy chairman of Moscow City Children's Commission on Children's Commune, Barybino
  • Letter from special migrant V. Bushmanov to Krupskaia
  • Letter from special migrants' children to Kalinin
  • Letter from A. Sol’ts of Party Control Commission to Vyshinsky
  • Letter from Krupskaia to Kalinin
  • Letter from Kalinin to Krupskaia on rights of children of disenfranchised persons
  • Letter from M. S. Gorokhova petitioning Krupskaia to continue her studies
  • Letter of appeal from V. L. Shkuropieva to Krupskaia
  • Letter of K. Ya. Chekina to Kalinin requesting return of passport
  • Letter of Boris Trapezontsev to Presidium of Supreme Soviet requesting release of his mother from exile
  • Letter from A. Tsyganov to G. I. Petrovsky requesting pardon of his wife
  • Letter from M. I. Simenova to G. M. Dimitrov
  • Letter from Vania Vylegzhanin to Krest’ianskaia Gazeta on dismissal of Kosarev
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Petition from F. G. Kolgushkin for reinstatement in party, 4 October 1930. RGAE, f. 8043, op. 11, d. 11, ll. 13–14. Typed copy.
Respected Comrades:
In March 1928 by decision of the TsKK's Presidium I was expelled from the ranks of the VKP(b) because I had concealed from the party, specifically when I was chosen at the Fifteenth Congress of VKP(b) to be an associate member of the TsK VKP(b), the fact that in 1911 after being convicted by the St. Petersburg Law Court under Article 102 for belonging to the RSDRP(b) [Rossiiskaia Sotsialisticheskaia Demokraticheskaia Rabochaia Partiia (bolshevikov), Russian Social Democratic Workers Party (Bolshevik)], I had submitted an appeal addressed to the tsar and been pardoned.
As was the case in my previous appeals (of 1928 and 1929), I continue to consider this act of mine to be a most serious crime against the party, a base act, verily that of a renegade. I also consider that the punishment meted out to me in 1928 was correct and deserved. I swear to you that during the two and a half years I have borne this punishment, burdensome and horrible for a Bolshevik, I have not ceased to be a Bolshevik in all of my actions nor will I cease to be one, because I am a Bolshevik and because I must atone for my guilt in the eyes of the party.
I simply cannot remain longer in this position; it will be unbearable for me. How can I remain outside the party when a concentrated, all-out effort is required for the great feat of building socialism as it keeps developing?
I beg the Presidium of TsKK VKP(b) to return me to the ranks of the VKP(b). This will enable me to participate with even greater strength in the building of socialism, in the party's struggle to surmount problems, and to atone for my guilt. Until May 1929 I worked in Novosibirsk as deputy chairman of Sibkraisovnarkhoz [Sibirskii kraevoi sovet narodnogo khoziaistva, Siberian Krai economic council]. On 15 May 1929 the TsKK, in accordance with a request by the Siberian Regional Party Committee, passed a resolution entertaining the possibility of my returning to the party but asking the worker cell for comments. Following this, in May 1929, I was appointed chief of Kuznetskstroi [Kuznetsk construction project]. Organizing construction at a new location absorbed all my time. I had to move from Novosibirsk and was, successively, at the construction site in Tomsk and in Moscow. I was subsequently sent on an official trip to America to negotiate a contract with an engineering firm for building the Kuznetsk plant and to place orders for equipment. I spent eight months altogether in America and Germany. All this prevented me from formally rejoining the party in accordance with the TsKK's resolution of 15 May 1929. Now that I have returned from abroad I am scheduled to go to the Urals, to Uralmet [Ural'skaia metallurgiia, Ural metal production project]. It is clear that my work there will from the very beginning


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entail prolonged and frequent trips to plants where I will be asked to report on the functioning and organization of American plants. This will again encumber and drag out my rejoining the party and will also prevent me from working as effectively as I could as a party member.
I am unable to live and work merely as a specialist and once again ask TsKK to return me to the party. I spring from landless peasants and since childhood I have worked as a hired person, starting out as a shepherd.
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Document TitlePetition from F. G. Kolgushkin for reinstatement in party
AuthorKolgushkin, F. G.
RecipientAll-Russian Central Executive Committee of; Soviets, All-Russian Conference of the Communist; Party, Soviet Central Executive Committee, Central Executive Committee of; Soviets, First Congress of Soviets, Sixth Congress of Soviets, Second All-Russian Congress of; Soviets, Presidium of the VTsIK, The Soviet, Supreme Soviet of the USSR, RSFSR Central Executive Committee, TsIK (Central Executive Committee)
RepositoryRGAE
ID #f.8043, op.d.11, ll.13-14
DescriptionN/A
Date1930 Oct 4
AOC VolumeStalinism as a Way of Life: A Narrative in Documents
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