
10.102- Dizzy WIth Success
Revolutions
The Communist Party of the 20th Century
After the abject bottoming out that was the famine of 19 21 19 22, agricultural yields improved in the 19 twenties. The soviet union saw its peak harvest in 19 25 19 26, coming in at about 77 million tons of grain. But individual landed proprietors growing crops for profit wasn't communism. It wasn't even the s r or menshevik programme. It was just capitalism and simple. This is what had driven the left opposition so crazy about the n e p. When the political conflicts of the 19 twenties weren't reducible merely to personality conflict.
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