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31: 151:. The census was organised with great expectations from the government that it would confirm the superiority of the Soviet economic and social model, with Stalin publicly declaring in 1934 that the Soviet Union was gaining at least 3 million citizens per year. The census questions and procedure were prepared for several years by a commission of professional statisticians and demographers, but then significantly changed by Stalin and other members of the 158:
The results obtained from the census were at least 8 million people short of the expected outcome and immediately classified. The formal organizers were accused of "wrecking" and sent to camps, and the shortage was officially presented as caused by their negligence and acts of sabotage. The
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58-7: Wrecking was acts "with counter-revolutionary purposes" aimed against normal functioning of state and cooperative organisations, monetary and credit systems, such as giving deliberately wrong commands, counteracting their normal functioning, as well as acting in the interests of the former
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As applied in practice, "wrecking" and "sabotage" referred to any action which negatively affected the economy, including failing to meet unrealistic economic targets, allegedly causing poor morale among subordinates (e.g. by complaining about conditions of work), lack of effort, or other
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actual measurement error, as estimated by statisticians in the 1990s, did not exceed 1.5%, and the disappointing result was caused by the huge loss of life that occurred during
152: 307:[Census of 1937: Fact and Fiction (originally published as Population census of the USSR in 1937. History and materials / Express information)]. 192:, accused of wrecking on the railroad transport. He "confessed" in providing consultations which had led to actual wrecking. Executed in May 1929. (See 336: 305:"Перепись населения 1937 года: вымыслы и правда (originally published as Перепись населения СССР 1937 года. История и материалы/Экспресс-информация)" 101:
incompetence. Thus, it referred to economic or industrial sabotage in the very broadest sense. The definition of sabotage was interpreted
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to better match their political goals – the collection phase of the census was shortened and the procedures simplified.
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58-14 (added in 1927): "Counter-revolutionary sabotage" was non-execution, or careless execution, of one's duties.
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and indirectly, so any form of non-compliance with Party directives could have been considered a 'sabotage'.
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58-9: Infliction of physical damage to state and cooperative property "with counter-revolutionary purposes".
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involving charges of "wrecking" was that of official coordinators of the
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Distinctions among the three categories in the sub-articles:
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Wrecking (Soviet crime)

GPU
Russian
Soviet Union
Stalin era
sabotage
counter-revolutionary
Article 58 (RSFSR Penal Code)
dialectically
Shakhty Trial
Industrial Party Trial
Metro-Vickers Affair
show trials
1937 Soviet census
Central Committee
collectivization
Famine of 1932–1933
Ukraine
Holodomor
Gulag
Nikolai von Meck
the ru-wiki article
Vladimir V. Tchernavin
Nikolai Glebov-Avilov
Nikolay Urvantsev
Socialist emulation
Cogs in the Wheel: The Formation of Soviet Man
ISBN
978-0394569260

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