Talk:Soviet grain procurement crisis of 1928

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Linguistic puzzles[edit]

"From the end of 1926 demand among planners and party activists for a new program of mass industrialization that would modernize the largely peasant country." has no active verb (modernize is part of a subordinate phrase). Perhaps this could be edited something like this: "From the end of 1930, planner and party activists demanded..." or "demand increased [or arose] among planners and activists...:

"Calls for an official policy of centrally-planned industrialization had emanated from the Left Opposition headed by Leon Trotsky throughout the middle 1920s, with an explicit criticism levied in a September 1927 program of a "frank and open drift to the Right," to accommodation with the most wealthy segment of the peasantry to the detriment of national industrialization and further development of a socialist economy." What was unclear to me was where he "frank and open drift" came from: a September 1927 program (whose program? Left Opposition or government?), from the criticism or from the policy being attacked. —— Shakescene (talk) 02:15, 11 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]