Download or read book The Reconstruction of Agriculture in the Soviet Union written by A. Gayster and published by . This book was released on 1930 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Private Agriculture in the Soviet Union written by Stefan Hedlund and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-08-06 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1989. Perestroika, it was widely believed, must succeed in agriculture before permanent change could be affected elsewhere in the Soviet economy. But Soviet agriculture had so far remained stubbornly inefficient and resistant to change. In this book Stefan Hedlund investigates the reasons for this state of affairs. The author gives an account of the emergence, development and performance of private agriculture in the Soviet Union. In particular he describes the essentials of the peculiarly Soviet hybrid of private and socialized agriculture. He places the private sector within the broader framework of Soviet agriculture. He saw Soviet agriculture as a ‘Black Hole’, ready to absorb any resources that came near, be they private plots, urban gardens, factory workshops or military units. Hedlund also examines the impact on the peasants as producers of decades of negative ideological pronouncements in Party propaganda, and of discrimination and at times outright harassment by local officials. He points out that this background makes the prospect of any positive response from the peasants to Gorbachev’s call for perestroika in agriculture extremely unlikely.
Download or read book Soviet Agrarian Policy written by Lazar Volin and published by . This book was released on 1933 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Years of Hunger Soviet Agriculture 1931 1933 written by R. Davies and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-01-13 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the Soviet agricultural crisis of 1931-1933 which culminated in the major famine of 1933. It is the first volume in English to make extensive use of Russian and Ukrainian central and local archives to assess the extent and causes of the famine. It reaches new conclusions on how far the famine was 'organized' or 'artificial', and compares it with other Russian and Soviet famines and with major twentieth century famines elsewhere. Against this background, it discusses the emergence of collective farming as an economic and social system.
Download or read book Prospects for Soviet Agriculture in the 1980s written by David Gale Johnson and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1983 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Crisis in Soviet Agriculture written by Stefan Hedlund and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-08-06 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, first published in 1984, analyses the institutions and decision-making processes that determined agricultural production in the Soviet Union. It addresses the crisis in Soviet agriculture of the early 1980s, examining the problems of low productivity, adverse natural conditions and an underdeveloped infrastructure. The book’s analysis of the ‘crisis’ focuses on the growing gap between demand and supply of agricultural produce, and the pressures on the government to alleviate the food shortages.
Download or read book Soviet Agriculture in Perspective written by Erich Strauss and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-06-14 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Soviet Agriculture in Perspective (1969) examines the framework within which Soviet agriculture had to operate from the start: the dilemma of a revolutionary regime in a backward peasant country, the straightjacket of a bureaucratic system inherited from Tsarism, made even more rigid by the internal tensions of the new society, and the imperative needs of economic development. In analysing Soviet agricultural policy, it looks at the appropriate volume of agricultural output, the need for massive capital investment, the level of prices and costs, and the optimum size of a farm.
Download or read book Soviet and East European Agriculture written by Jerzy F. Karcz and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2022-05-13 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1967.
Download or read book The Future Of Agriculture In The Soviet Union And Eastern Europe written by Roy D. Laird and published by Westview Press. This book was released on 1977-08-20 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Works in Progress written by Jenny Leigh Smith and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2014-10-28 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first to investigate the gap between the plans and the reality of the Soviet Union’s mid-twentieth-century project to industrialize and modernize its agricultural system. Historians agree that the project failed badly: agriculture was inefficient, unpredictable, and environmentally devastating for the entire Soviet period. Yet assigning the blame exclusively to Soviet planners would be off the mark. The real story is much more complicated and interesting, Jenny Leigh Smith reveals in this deeply researched book. Using case studies from five Soviet regions, she acknowledges hubris and shortsightedness where it occurred but also gives fair consideration to the difficulties encountered and the successes—however modest—that were achieved.
Download or read book Agriculture and the State in Soviet and Post Soviet Russia written by Stephen Wegren and published by University of Pittsburgh Pre. This book was released on 2010-11-23 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner, 1999 Edward A. Hewett Book Prize from AAASS A comprehensive, original, and innovative analysis of the social, economic, and political factors affecting contemporary Russian reform, the book is organized around the central question of the role of the state and its effect on the course of Russian agrarian reform. In the wake of the collapse of the USSR, contemporary conventional wisdom holds the the Russian state is "weak." Stephen Wegren feels that the traditional approach to the weak/strong state suffers from measurement and circular logic problems, believing that the Russian state, thought weaker than in its Soviet past, is still relatively stronger than other actors. The state's strength allows it to intervene in the rural sector in ways that other power contender cannot.Specifically, as a measure of state intervention, Wegren analyzes how the state has influenced urban-rural relations, rural-rural relations, and the nonstate (private) agricultural sector. Several dilemmas arose that have complicated successful agrarian reform as a result of the nature of state interventions, how reform policies were defined, and the incentives rhar arose from state-sponsored policies. During contemporary Russian agrarian reform, urban-rural differences have widened, marked by a deterioration in rural standards of living and increased alienation of rural political groups from urban alliances. At the same time, within the rural sector, reform failed to reverse rural egalitarianism. In addition, the nature of state interventions has undermined attempts to create a vibrant, productive private rural sector based on private farming.Wegren's research is based upon extensive field work, interviews, archival documents, and published and unpublished source material conducted over a six-year period, and he demonstrates the link between agrarian reform and the success of overall reform in Russia. This learned and often controversial volume will interest political scientists, policy makers, and scholars and students of contemporary Russia.
Download or read book Agricultural Co Operation in the Soviet Union written by G. Ratner and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2023-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Agricultural Co-operation in the Soviet Union (1929) examines agriculture in the USSR as the government was restructuring all national economic life and enterprise on a state socialist basis. It looks at the significance of farming co-operatives in Soviet agricultural planning and describes the actual work of the agricultural co-operatives.
Download or read book The Private Sector in Soviet Agriculture written by Karl Eugen Wädekin and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1973-01-01 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Century of Russian Agriculture written by Lazar Volin and published by Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1970-01-01 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The failure of the annual harvest is still an event of greater importance in the lives of the Russian people than...what happens to steel production."--from the Introduction With over 540 million acres sown to crops the Soviet Union was one of the world's agricultural giants. Yet agriculture was the Achilles heel of the Soviet economy. Public pronouncements of Russian leaders--prerevolutionary and postrevolutionary alike--attested the crucial role of the agricultural problem, its economically and politically explosive nature, and its persistence over the years. This is one of the most thorough studies ever made of Russian agriculture. Emphasizing the continuity of problems and policies too often dichotomized into tsarist and Soviet eras, Volin has created a monumental work--a sweeping panorama of the century between the emancipation of the serfs and the 1960s. The author begins by recounting the development of serfdom and describing the emancipation and subsequent problem of land distribution. In the first part ofthe book he also explores the first agrarian revolution (1905) and the reforms that followed it, as well as the conditions during World War I that led to the Revolution of 1917. In Part II he treats agricultural conditions during the Civil War, attempts made to restore the economy by means of the New Economic Policy, Stalin's programof forced collectivization and liquidation of the kulaks, agricultural conditions during World War II--including Nazi policies in occupied territory--and the policies of Stalin in the postwar recovery. The longest section of the book is devoted to the Khrushchev era. It covers capital investment and expansion of sown acreage, incentives for the kolkhozniks, their income, and the supply of consumer goods, as well as mechanization and electrification programs, the state farms, rates of production, and administrative control and planning. The final chapter summarizes the past century and comments on the outlook for the future.
Download or read book Soviet Agriculture written by Zhores A. Medvedev and published by W. W. Norton. This book was released on 1987 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes agriculture in the Soviet Union before and after the Revolution, discusses livestock, food production, mechanization, chemicals, and private agriculture, and identifies key problems
Download or read book Soviet Agricultural Policy Toward the Abolition of Collective Farms written by Stephen Osofsky and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 1974 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Monograph on agricultural policy issues with regard to the collective farming system in the USSR - discusses political aspects, economic implications, problems and prospects relating to land ownership, farm size, agricultural administration, agricultural production functions and agricultural price, etc. Bibliography pp. 271 to 293, references and statistical tables.
Download or read book The Socialist Offensive written by Robert William Davies and published by Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1980 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
