Current Problems of Soviet Agriculture
Author | : United States. Central Intelligence Agency |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 40 |
Release | : 1961 |
Genre | : Agriculture |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : United States. Central Intelligence Agency |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 40 |
Release | : 1961 |
Genre | : Agriculture |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Stefan Hedlund |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 245 |
Release | : 2019-08-06 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 100068170X |
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.
Author | : Alec Nove |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 285 |
Release | : 2014-07-11 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1136629475 |
First published in 1964, Was Stalin Really Necessary? is a thought-provoking work which deals with many aspects of the Soviet political economy, planning problems and statistics. Professor Nove starts with an attempt to evaluate the rationality of Stalinism and discusses the possible political consequences of the search for greater economic efficiency, which is followed by a controversial discussion of Kremlinology. The author goes on to analyse the situation of the peasants as reflected in literary journals, then looks at industrial and agricultural problems. There are elaborate statistical surveys of occupational patterns and the purchasing power of wages, followed by an examination of the irrational statistical reflection of irrational economic decisions. Professor Nove’s essay on social welfare was, unlike some of his other work, used in the Soviet press as evidence against over-enthusiastic cold-warriors, among whom the author was not always popular. Finally, the author seeks to generalise about the evolution of world communism.
Author | : Walter Gensurowsky |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 22 |
Release | : 1962 |
Genre | : Agriculture |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Joachim von Braun, Christian Albreehts University |
Publisher | : Intl Food Policy Res Inst |
Total Pages | : 32 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0896296253 |
Author | : Brigitta Young |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 149 |
Release | : 2019-06-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1000308391 |
This book challenges the conventional view that the present low yields of the Soviet agricultural system result primarily from its institutional structure, demonstrating that other factors are of equal or greater importance. Ms. Young examines two alternative explanations: first, that weather is the dominant force underlying trends in Soviet grain
Author | : United States. Central Intelligence Agency |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 42 |
Release | : 1961 |
Genre | : Agriculture |
ISBN | : |
Author | : R. Davies |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 582 |
Release | : 2016-01-13 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0230273971 |
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.
Author | : Stefan Hedlund |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 225 |
Release | : 2019-08-06 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 1000681521 |
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.
Author | : Nikolai M. Dronin |
Publisher | : Central European University Press |
Total Pages | : 386 |
Release | : 2006-06-20 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 6155053685 |
Between 1900 and 1990 there were several periods of grain and other food shortages in Russia and the former Soviet Union, some of which reached disaster proportions resulting in mass famine and death on an unprecedented scale. New stocks of information not previously accessible as well as traditional official and other sources have been used to explore the extent to which policy and vagaries in climate conspired to affect agricultural yields. Were the leaders' (Stalin, Krushchev, Brezhnev and Gorbachev) policies sound in theory but failed in practice because of unpredictable weather? How did the Soviet peasants react to these changes? What impact did Soviet agriculture have on the overall economy of the country? These are all questions that are taken into account. The book is arranged in chapters representing different time periods. In each the policy of the central government is discussed followed by the climate vagaries during that period. Crop yields are then analyzed in the light of policy and climate.