The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-12-18
By A. KISILEV
,.uotary Central Executive
O3mmittee RS SIR

c.,retary Central Executive
Committee RS SIX
Tho conquest of power by the
lnS proletariat was an event
Russia, historical signiti-
OF n1OTh The establishment of the
eance. government over One-Sixth
So' t5s Globe was most serious
Of IHf fo the whole of the capitalist
VIZ TIo nroletariat of Russia, I'M
-. l4 The leadership of the Commun-
DEL p Do, having captured power,
81 atiisbfd for the first time priv
s .s nroperty in land, the mills and
ss Is PIF banks, railways, ship
laSl r etc. For the first time in
[ Pins' the Russian proletariat
n .saTarted an imperialist war into
Gun :ui war and, having taken power
!c'n,,odiately extricated themselves
i hnn, the deadly fire of the i'm
Il ..;oIist war and concluded peace.
P1 The October victory was a vic
..rr for the whole international
prOIetarlat.
80 defeated the bourgeOisie, orga-
lie u;99od its Soviets, set up its dicta-
-.b:n secured. for the first time
/" the history of the world, real
Iroodom of assembly taking the
Last meetiig halls of the bour-
oooisie), real freedom of speech
end press, (depriving the bour-
o of all printing shops and
Ssners) turning the press into a
Tsapon for its complete emanci-
uofion and an instrument of So
f;slist construction, securing for
itself the political right to orga-
riae political party, trade unions
and cOOperatives.
In one of its first acts, the So
net government proclaimed the
nuality and sovereign rights of
The peoples inhabiting the Russian
Empire, their right to self deter
minatiOn to the extent of complete
1eDaratiOn and formation of indie
uendent states, the abolition of all
forms of national and religious
privileges and restrictions, the
right of the national minorities
and ethnographical groups inhab-
ting Russia, freely to develop.
On the basis of these principles
free union of liberated nationali-
ties. the Union of Soviet Socialist
Republics, arose and is thriving OIL
the ruins of the tsarist empire.
During the fourteen years of
their existence, the Soviets, as the
organ of proletarian dictatorship,
many times changed their forms
Of organization and methods of
work, always in accordance with
the tasks which confronted the
Party and the government in the
various historical stages of devel-
Opment.
During the days of the October
revolution, the Soviets were the
organs of instruction. After that
period they became organizers OF
the masses for maintaining the
positions they had conquered and
for resisting the counter-revolu-
ton. When the civil war ended
and the USSR entered a period OF
peaceful construction, the Soviet
became the organs of struggle fol
the rehabilitation of the national
economy devastated by the imperi-
aist and the civil wars. Finally
in the present period of reconstruc-
ton of the national economy, the
SOvlets are fighting for the re-
building Of industry and agricul-
tre.
The main task of the Soviets al
the present time is to carry out {
fundamental reconstruction of the
whole of national economy along
socialist lines, a struggle for the
successful fulfillment of the Five
Year Plan in four years, for the
carrying out of all plans of pro.
ductlOn and finance, for the orga'
nlzatiOn of collective farms anC
their Organizational and economic
Development.
On the basis of complete collec.
dvizatiOn of agriculture the Sow
cts are energetically roofing ou-
NE last remnants of capitalism
Wlplng out the kulaks as a class
Now that the small individual
farmers are organizing collective
farms, rural life and production
are undergoing revolutionary
changes. Instead of individual
peasant cultivation, the land il
now being cultivated collectively
We have collective reaping of har
vests, collective care of cattle, col
lectlve dining rooms.
The decision of the Party to de
VelOp extensive collective farming
met with the widest response from
me masses of the USSR. Will,
on On October 1, 1927, there wer,
.oUOOO peasant farms organized
u collectives, constituting IL pc
cent Ten Of the total. on August
1881 we had 14,265,OOO farms or
ssSGlzed in colectives, constitutin,
''S per cent of the total.
BY the fourteenth anniversar,