1. V. I. Lenin, Selected Works (New York, 1943) pp. 253–4.
2. I. V. Stalin, Sochineniya (Moscow, 1949) vol. 11, p.58.
3. I. V. Stalin, Sochineniya (Moscow, 1949) vol. 11, p. 251.
4. I. V. Stalin, Sochineniya (Moscow, 1951), vol. 13, pp. 38–9.
5. This section draws heavily on H. Hunter and J. M. Szyrmer, Faulty Foundations: Soviet Economic Policies, 1928–1940, (Princeton, NJ, 1992) pp. 167–73.