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The result was delete. -- RoySmith (talk) 01:59, 6 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Economic repression in the Soviet Union (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View log · Stats)

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The article consists of two sentences. The first sentence fails to properly define the subject, instead giving a poor explanation of its causes. The second sentence informs the reader that in some "early periods of Soviet history" (when?) "undesirable classes" (who? only kulaks?) "were repressed by economic means" (how precisely? what rate of taxation on what tax base was applied to which groups?). The article doesn't meet the encyclopedia's standards in terms of style, relevance, breadth and extent of content, sourcing, etc. I strongly suggest to delete it. Arbraxan (talk) 09:59, 28 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete per nom; and much of the intended content is already included at kulak. Jujutsuan (Please notify with ((re)) | talk | contribs) 11:15, 28 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of History-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 12:11, 28 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Politics-related deletion discussions. Mar11 (talk) 16:52, 28 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Russia-related deletion discussions. Mar11 (talk) 16:52, 28 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete -- This is pretending to be a wide-ranging article, which it is not. There was an older version that tried to link in a later period, but tying together unrelated events produces an essay not a WP article. This is essentially hopeless. Peterkingiron (talk) 17:38, 28 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete per nominator. Graham (talk) 18:53, 28 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete - This is not a term used in the literature either of mainstream economic history or of Marxism. There are probably instances of economic repression in Soviet Russia and the USSR which might be explored at article length under a precise topic heading, such as, for example, the differential rationing used against the byvshie liudi ("former people" — the bourgeoisie) under War Communism. This would be part of an article on rationing during a specific time interval, which has a literature to be mined. Or, as noted above, the tax and physical seizures used against prominent peasants during the collectivization campaign, which touches upon work already up on the Ural-Siberian Method, for example (which I need to remember to get busy and finish, dammit...). A generalized treatment under the topic head we have here, at least at this point, would be overreach verging on Original Research. TNT. Carrite (talk) 22:10, 29 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete per nominator and Carrite.--Ddcm8991 (talk) 19:33, 5 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.