Kulaks Excluded from Cooperatives

Supreme Council of National Economy, Kulaks Excluded from Cooperatives. November 30, 1918

Original Source: S. A. Piontkovskii (ed). Grazhdanskaia voina v Rossii 1918-1921, gg. (Moscow, 1925) 72-73.

In order to eliminate kulaks and counter-revolutionary elements from the cooperative organizations, the following persons shall be deprived of the right to elect and be elected officials of cooperatives:

  1. Those hiring labor with the purpose of gain.

Note. Temporary hiring of help does not disqualify for election.

  1. Those living on unearned incomes, such as interest on capital, incomes from business or real estate.

  2. Those engaged in trade at present or during the past three years, as well as those occupied as middlemen at any time during the past three years.

Note. The three-year period may be shortened to one year in the cases of those who have proved themselves useful cooperative workers.

  1. Monks and nuns.

  2. Ministers of religion, except those who have proved themselves useful workers in the cooperative movement.

  3. Agents of the former police, gendarmes, and secret service agents.

A. Rykov Chairman of the Supreme Council of National Economy

Source: James Bunyan, ed., Intervention, Civil War, and Communism in Russia, April-December 1918 (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1936), pp. 439-440.

1917

EVENTS February Revolution Formation of the Soviets April Crisis Revolution in the Army July Days Kornilov Affair Bolsheviks Seize Power First Bolshevik Decrees Constituent Assembly Treaty of Brest Litovsk
FOUR KINDS OF STATES Communist Party Building Economic Apparatus Building the Soviets Red Guard into Army State Security
DISINTEGRATION OF THE OLD SOCIETY Depopulation of the Cities Food Supply Conflict with the Church Death of the Old Culture Destruction of the Left The Empire Falls
CREATION OF A NEW SOCIETY New Letters and Dates Culture and Revolution The New Woman Workers Organization Peasant Revolution Organs of the Press Raising Socialist Youth