Erratum: Prison Life in USSR (1930-31)Source: The Slavonic and East European Review, Vol. 12, No. 35 (Jan., 1934), p. 386Published by: the Modern Humanities Research Association and University College London, School ofSlavonic and East European StudiesStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/4202900 .

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386 THE SLAVONIC REVIEW.

was to be exercised over buildings, implements and livestock generally; fourthly, pending the Constituent Assembly's final decision, guidance in carrying out the land reform was to be obtained from a summarised version of the 242 local peasant " Instructions" printed in the official journal of the All-Russian Peasant Soviet.'8 These instructions were an elaboration of the principles of the " cherny peredel," or general redivision. The equalising redistribu- tory land commune was now officially sanctioned over the whole of Russia. An entire page of Russia's annals, containing the ten years' efforts of land settlement, was torn out. An historic ruling class fell like grass before the scythe. An epoch had passed away. What did the future hold in store?

ii March, I933. L. A. OWEN. 18 Izvestya No. 88, 6 August, I917.

ERRATUM IN the article entitled " Prison Life in USSR" by Prof. Chernavin, which appeared on pp. 63-78 of Slavonic Review, Vol. XII, No. 34 (July, I933), on p. 65, after the words, " Thus in the department in which I was working-ocean fisheries-", the following should replace the paragraph as it reads at present: " At the beginning of I928, there were 23 trawlers. The Five Year Plan, as confirmed, reckoned on increasing the number to 70, with a catch of I75,000 metric tons (about 350,ooo English cwts.). As altered by the Government in i929, the Plan increased the estimate to 500 trawlers and called for a catch on these vessels in the Barents Straits of i,500,000 metric tons (30,ooo,oo0 English cwts.). After insistent representations, which were often dangerous for those who ventured to make them, as to the complete impossibility of such a plan, it was diminished to i,ooo,ooo metric tons (2o,ooo,ooo English cwts.), with 300 trawlers. As it worked out, by the end of the Five Year Plan, the number of trawlers was raised only to 53' that is, by 30, with a catch of certainly less than IOO,OOO metric tons (about 2,000,000 English cwts.).

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