The Reconstruction of Moscow

STALIN ON THE LINES OF DEVELOPMENT OF SOCIALIST CITIES

At the June Plenum of the Central Committee of the C.P.S.U. in 1931, at the initiative of Stalin, L. M. Kagano- vich delivered a report on the municipal services and enterprises of Moscow and the development of the muni- cipal services and enterprises of the U.S.S.R. The resolution of this Plenum reflected the masterly suggestions of Stalin concerning the development of the construction of the cities Of the U.S.S.R. in general, and of Moscow in particular, as the capital of the great social- ist fatherland. Stalin severely criticized the trend towards bourgeois urbanism, which proposed to develop Moscow and other great cities of the U.S.S.R. along the lines of capitalist cities, without limiting industry and the influx of the population. At the same time, he criticized petty-bourgeois anti-urbanism, which denied the very principle of the city and sought to reduce the cities and change them into- small settlements of the rural type. At the suggestion of Stalin, the June Plenum of the Central Committee of the C.P.S.U. adopted the following resolution, limiting the further growth of industry within Moscow, Leningrad and other large cities:

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