Great Break (USSR)

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The Great Turn or Great Break (Russian: Великий перелом) was the radical change in the economic policy of the USSR from 1928 to 1929, primarily consisting of the process by which the New Economic Policy (NEP) of 1921 was abandoned in favor of the acceleration of collectivization and industrialization and also a cultural revolution. The term came from the title of Joseph Stalin's article "Year of the Great Turn" ("Год великого перелома: к XII годовщине Октября", literally: "Year of the Great Break: Toward the 12th Anniversary of October") published on November 7, 1929, the 12th anniversary of the October Revolution.[1] David R. Marples argues that the era of the Great Break lasted until 1934.[2]: 102 

  1. ^ Viola, Lynne (1996). Peasant rebels under Stalin : collectivization and the culture of peasant resistance. New York, New York. ISBN 978-0-19-535132-3. OCLC 1110702095.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  2. ^ Marples, David R. (2014), "The Period of Change: Collectivization, Industrialization, and the Great Purge, 1929-1940", Motherland, Routledge, pp. 98–127, doi:10.4324/9781315837437-4, ISBN 978-1-315-83743-7, retrieved 2021-03-25