September 2021

The twelfth conference from the cycle of Stalinism is devoted to the analysis of the events of 1929 in the USSR, which had a significant long -term influence on the history of the Soviet Union and Russia, and also had important international consequences. Forcibly collectivization and industrial leap of the first five-year plan, a cultural revolution aimed at the rapid transformation of a predominantly agrarian country into an industrial, destroyed the traditional socio-economic structures of the state and the life of the majority of the Soviet population, especially the peasant. The conference participants consider the following issues: collectivization and industrial leap of the late 1920s-early 1930s, ideology, practice and public awareness of the “great fracture”, its short-term and long-term consequences, the results of the Stalin course of the first five-year period and the reasons for its adjustment in the second The five-year plan, the military-mobilization system in the pre-war and war years and attempts to reform it, the cultural revolution and ideological mobilization, the Soviet system in a comparative perspective