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HARVEY KLEWR JOHN EARI HAYES, 6 FRIORIKH AGOREVICH FRSOV ANNALS OF C O M M U N I S M Each volume in the series Annals of Communism will publish selected and previously inaccessible documents from former Soviet state and party archives in the framework of a narrative text that focuses on a particular topic in the history of Soviet and interna- tional communism. Separate English and Russian editions will be prepared. Russian and American scholars select and annotate the documents for each volume; together they explain the selection criteria and discuss the state of relevant research and scholarly interpretation. Documents are chosen not for their support of any single interpretation but for their particular historical importance or their general value in deepening under- standing and facilitating discussion. The volumes are designed to be useful to students, scholars, and interested genera

ANNALS OF C O M M U N I S M Each volume in the series Annals of Communism will publish selected and previously inaccessible documents from former Soviet state and party archives in the framework of a narrative text that focuses on a particular topic in the history of Soviet and interna- tional communism. Separate English and Russian editions will be prepared. Russian and American scholars select and annotate the documents for each volume; together they explain the selection criteria and discuss the state of relevant research and scholarly interpretation. Documents are chosen not for their support of any single interpretation but for their particular historical importance or their general value in deepening under- standing and facilitating discussion. The volumes are designed to be useful to students, scholars, and interested general readers. EXECUTIVE EDITOR, ANNALS OF COMMUNISM Jonathan Brent, Yale University Press AMERICAN EDITORIAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE Ivo Banac, Yale University Czeslaw Milosz, University of California Jeffrey Burds, University of Rochester at Berkeley William Chase, University of Pittsburgh Norman Naimark, Stanford University Victor Erlich, Yale University…