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Unpopularity |
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By the summer of 1930 the government’s popularity had fallen because of collectivisation and the first five year plan |
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Some important communist leaders were appalled by the brutalities of collectivisation and were calling for more moderate policies - Lominadze the party chief in Transcaucasia ‘if there is to be a spring cleaning every piece of furniture has to be removed, including the biggest one’ - Lominadze was sacked. |
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The Rytov Platform Rytov was head of a party committee in a district of Moscow - circulated a document known as the Rytov platform called for: the easing of pressure on the countryside, more democracy in the party and the removal of Stalin by force. Stalin had informers everywhere had Rytov and 17 of his group arrested - he wanted them executed but Kirov and other moderates defeated Stalin. |
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17th Party congress met February 1934 - Stalin only just voted onto party central committee. Sergie Kirov was more popular |
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