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English

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Results of the XIII Party Congress (of Cooperation)

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A political film-poster extolling the virtues of working together and collectivization. In summer and autumn of 1923 the first economic crisis of the NEP period in the USSR began, caused by price discrepancies between very high prices for manufactured goods and very low prices for food. By October of 1923, this phenomenon led to the fact that peasants en masse stopped buying the products of industry. The 13th Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks) was held during 23–31 May 1924 in Moscow. This congress was the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks)' first to take place after the death of Vladimir Lenin, and represents a transition between the Lenin and Joseph Stalin regimes. It was also the first confrontation between the Left Opposition (led by Leon Trotsky) and the "troika" (led by Stalin, Grigory Zinoviev, and Lev Kamenev). The Congress approved the establishment of the people's Commissariat of internal trade and set before them and all the trading bodies the task of mastering the market and ousting private capital from trade. It set a goal to expand cheap credit to the peasantry of the state and to oust the usurer from the village. As the main aim of the work in the village, the Congress put forward the slogan of full cooperation of the peasant masses. This film has no entry on animator.ru. Some sources list the director as unknown, while others list him as Dziga Vertov (which does not seem so unlikely, as this is the sort of thing he did in those years).