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The War Against the Peasantry, 1927–1930: The Tragedy of the Soviet Countryside
  • Mailgram from the Information and Political Control Department of the OGPU regarding a ban on publication of material with information about difficulties with grain supplies
  • From informational summary report [svodka] no. 22 of the OGPU Information and Political Control Department for 20 July through 3 August 1927
  • From a speech by USSR People's Commissar of Trade A. I. Mikoian at a meeting of the collegium of the Commissariat on the progress of grain procurements
  • Report from the OGPU to the USSR Sovnarkom on the need to take repressive measures against private traders
  • Politburo directive “On Grain Procurements”
  • From a survey by the OGPU Information Department on the political situation in the USSR in December 1927
  • OGPU directive to arrest private grain procurement agents and merchants
  • CC directive to party organizations on grain procurements
  • Summary report no. 5 by the EKU of the OGPU on the grain procurement campaign of 1927-28 and the mood of the peasantry
  • CC directive to local organizations on intensification of measures with regard to grain procurements
  • Protocol no. 53/b of joint meeting of the bureau of the Siberian Krai party committee with Comrade Stalin and representatives of procurement and other party organizations
  • Letter from S. I. Zagumenny to I. V. Stalin and S. I. Syrtsov on the application of article 107 of the Criminal Code
  • Telegram from I. V. Stalin in Novosibirsk to V. M. Molotov, S. V. Kosior, and the CC
  • From a report by M. I. Frumkin, USSR deputy people's commissar of finance, to the CC and the STO on a trip to the Urals and the issue of grain procurements
  • Report from the OGPU EKU on mass repression carried out against speculators in the USSR grain market
  • From a political report by the Political Administration of the Caucasus Red Banner Army on the attitudes of Red Army soldiers toward the grain procurement campaign
  • Report from the OGPU EKU on the number of speculators arrested during mass operations
  • Letter from M. I. Frumkin to the Poliburo
  • From speeches by I. V. Stalin and N. I. Bukharin at the July plenum of the CC
  • From N. I. Bukharin's declaration to the Politburo
  • USSR Commissariat of Trade directive (by direct wire) on forcing grain procurements
  • Decree of the Council of Labor and Defense “On Grain Procuments and Grain Supplies”
  • Telegram from the RSFSR Comminnsariat of Justice on administrative penalites for violating grain delivary deadlines
  • Telegram from A. A. Andreev, secretary of the Northern Caucasus Krai party committee, to I. V. Stalin on the Justice Commissariat directive
  • Memorandum from A. I. Mikoian to V. M. Molotov on the inquiry from A. A. Andreev
  • Decree of the RSFSR Central Executive Committee and Sovnarkom “On the Expansion of the Rights of Local Soviets in Assisting the Fulfillment of State Assignments and Plans”
  • OGPU Information Department report about a mass disturbance in the village of Konokovo, Armavir Okrug
  • Letter of M. D. Mikhailin, a peasant from the village of Dement’evka, Samara Guberniia, to his son about grain procurements
  • Politburo resolution on “On Grain Procurements”
  • OGPU circular “On Measures to Increase Grain Procurements”
  • CC directive “On Measures to Increase Grain Procurements”
  • OGPU circular letter on the struggle against counterrevolution in the countryside
  • CC directive “On Grain Procurements”
  • Politburo directive to the OGPU and commissariats of justice on intensifying repressions
  • From an OGPU Information Department report on peasant mass disturbances
  • From the article of I. V. Stalin, “The Year of the Great Turn: On the Occasion of the Twelfth Anniversary of the October Revolution”
  • OGPU data on the number of those arrested during grain procurements as of 4 November 1929
  • OGPU Report. Antisoviet incidents in the countryside related to grain procurements, from the start of the grain procurement campaign [July] through 4 November 1929
  • Report by G. N. Kaminsky “On the Results and Further Tasks of Collective-Farm Construction”
  • From the speech by V. M. Molotov in the discussion of G. N. Kaminsky's report
  • From the speech by S. I. Syrtsov on the reports by G. M. Krzhizhanovsky and V. V. Kuibyshev
  • From protocol no. 108 of the Politburo session on the establishment of the commission
  • Proposals by G. N. Kaminsky's subcommission on the CC draft decree
  • Data from the USSR Commissariat of Agriculture on the progress of collectivization in USSR okrugs and krais as of 15 December 1929, compiled from reports by the secretaries of okrug party committees
  • CC draft decree on the pace of collectivization, prepared by the commission
  • Report by M. M. Khataevich at the bureau of the Middle Volga Krai party committee on the work of the commission
  • Report by the OGPU Information Department on the mass sell-off and slaughter of livestock based on materials as of 15 December 1929
  • From a letter by I. V. Stalin to V. M. Molotov, secretary of the CC, on the CC draft decree on the pace of collectivization, prepared by the commission
  • Telegram from V. M. Molotov to I. V. Stalin on the draft decree of the CC of the VKP(b) on the pace of collectivization, prepared by the commission
  • Telegram from I. V. Stalin to V. M. Molotov on points of revision for the CC draft decree, prepared by the commission
  • Telegram from I. V. Stalin to B. P. Sheboldaev, secretary of the Lower Volga Krai party committee, on the upcoming consideration of the CC draft decree
  • Resolution of the CC of the VKP(b) on the pace of collectivization and state assistance to collective-farm construction
  • Report by the OGPU Information Department on the arbitrary administrative conduct in connection with wholesale collectivization in the Central Black Earth Oblast
  • Memorandum by OGPU deputy chairman G. G. Yagoda to leading officials of the OGPU with a proposal for devising repressive administrative measures against the kulaks
  • OGPU directive to all plenipotentiary representatives on the urgent provision of information on agents' activities relating to bases under investigation
  • Memorandum from G. G. Yagoda to S. A. Messing, OGPU deputy chairman, and Ye. G. Yevdokimov, chief of the OGPU Secret Operations Administration, on the necessity of stopping unorganized mass arrests
  • OGPU directive on the creation of operational groups at OGPU plenipotentiary representative offices and on the elaboration of specific plans for exiling kulaks
  • OGPU directive on preparatory measures for the exile of “kulak and White Guard elements” from raions of wholesale collectivization
  • Memorandum from G. G. Yagoda to leading OGPU officials on increasing the intervention of OGPU central organs in dekulakization
  • OGPU Order on Measures for the Liquidation of the Kulak as a Class
  • Decree of the CC Secretariat on implementation of the CC decree on measures regarding the kulaks
  • Special summary report from the OGPU plenipotentiary representative for Middle Volga Krai on the progress of dekulakization in the krai as of 13 February 1930
  • Report by I. M. Vareikis to the CC on the progress of collectivization and on the measures to liquidate the kulaks in the Central Black Earth Oblast
  • Politburo decree on the collective-farm charter and on I. V. Stalin's article
  • Data from the RSFSR Commissariat of Agriculture on the course of collectivization in the RSFSR on March 1, 1930
  • Letter from a Dnepropetrovsk worker to Stalin
  • I. V. Stalin, “Dizzy with Success: Concerning Questions of the Collective-Farm Movement,” 2 March 1930, Pravda
  • Letter from G. G. Yagoda to I. V. Stalin with an appended OGPU report on excesses in the conduct of collectivization and dekulakization
  • From a report by the OGPU operations group on the results of the work to exile category 2 kulaks
  • Survey by the OGPU Information Department of letters from kulaks exiled to the Northern Krai
  • Central Committee's closed letter, “On the tasks of the collective farm movement in connection with the struggle with violations of the party line”
  • Results of collectivization, compiled on the basis of data from the USSR Commissariat of Agriculture, Kolkhoztsentr, and the Statistical Sector of the USSR Gosplan, for the sixteenth party congress
  • Information from the OGPU Special Department on the number of exiled second-category kulaks and [specially designated] “individuals”
  • Report from the OGPU about the number of individuals repressed by the OGPU organs in 1930
  • Report from the OGPU Secret Political Department on the forms and dynamics of the class struggle in the countryside in 1930
  • From protocol no. 113 of the Politburo session on the establishment of the commission
  • Proposals of the subcommittee chaired by I. D. Kabakov, secretary of the Urals Oblast party committee, on the resettlement and utilization of exiled khulaks
  • Politburo draft decree on the liquidation of the kulaks as a class, prepared by the subcommittee of I. D. Kabakov
  • Proposals by the subcommittee of Ya. A. Yakovlev regarding the Politburo draft decree on measures to liquidate the kulak as a class
  • Politburo decree “On Measures for the Liquidation of Kulak Farms in Raions of Wholesale Collectivization”
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By Yagoda, Genrikh Grigorievich

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DOCUMENT 64
Memorandum from G. G. Yagoda to leading OGPU officials on increasing the intervention of OGPU central organs in dekulakization, 24 January 1930. TsA FSB RF, f. 2, op. 9, d. 1, ll. 396–97ob. Certified copy.
 24 January 1930 No. 44224 To Comrades Messing, Yevdokimov, Vorontsov, Prokofiev
The work in Moscow Oblast is in very poor shape. Yesterday there was a decree by the oblast bureau on the resolute dekulakization of kulaks in the oblast, especially kitchen gardeners [ogorodniki] outside Moscow. I found out at the bureau that 520 kulaks had been dekulakized in Orekhovo-Zuevo and that the okrug chief, Yevstafiev, took a most active role but did not find it necessary to warn us of this.
We lead OGPU work throughout the Union, yet next door, right under our nose, we don't know what is going on. And this Yevstafiev—he didn't even give thought to whether he should ask for instructions at all on this matter.
I am afraid that our leadership in Moscow Oblast may evaporate and the entire dekulakization will proceed, if not without us, then with weak participation on our part unless we take decisive measures at once, such as against comrades like Yevstafiev, and focus at once on the oblast.
The kulak issue, as you know, is very serious. The localities are rushing things. Our strike at the kulak, which must be devastating, may become weaker unless we take charge in the localities.
1. A directive must be issued at once to mete out a harsh punishment to the kulak counterrevolutionaries. 2. We should begin at once to send out a portion of the trainees (from the border guards' school, the OGPU Transport Department, and plenipotentiaries). Put them in the dangerous places first (Lower Volga, Middle Volga, Central Black Earth Oblast, and Moscow). 3. Empty out the prisons, and for that purpose move all cases through quickly. 4. For this period take trainees out of the schools in the center (after reviewing the most talented) and assign them to various branches. Credit the trainees with time served in practical work. 5. Begin arrests in Moscow Oblast of especially inveterate kulaks and of kitchen gardeners, and for this purpose assign trainees to Moscow's


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raions, after giving them thorough instructions (I can speak at a general meeting of the border guards' school). Moscow's experience is very important for us. 6. The Moscow Oblast Bureau has formed a commission of seven members: Bauman, Yagoda, Ukhanov, Shumiatsky, Ryndin, and two others—I don't remember—for dekulakization. 7. The preparation of the operation in the city should take its normal course, roughly the end of February, unless something unexpected happens, although it should be accelerated. We must quickly and decisively derail any opportunities for activity by counterrevolutionaries. 8. We must always have the schools (those who are left) and a division at the ready. There could be minor disturbances. 9. Keep in the closest contact with the localities and okrug apparatuses of Moscow. 10. A directive must be issued to the localities to mobilize Chekist ranks, which once again have a tremendous, difficult job ahead of them, where integrity and our discipline are of tremendous importance. We are engaging in a new battle, we must wage it with minimal losses on our side. This requires a sudden, devastating strike, the force of which depends solely on our preparation and organization, and discipline. G. Yagoda
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Document TitleMemorandum from G. G. Yagoda to leading OGPU officials on increasing the intervention of OGPU central organs in dekulakization
AuthorYagoda, Genrikh Grigorievich
RecipientOGPU - Unified State Political Administration; (state security), GPUs of autonomous republics and the Special; Department of the Volga Region Military District
RepositoryTsAFSBRF
ID #f.2, op.9, d.1, ll.396-97ob
DescriptionN/A
Date1930 Jan 24
AOC VolumeThe War Against the Peasantry, 1927–1930: The Tragedy of the Soviet Countryside
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