The Years of Hunger: Soviet Agriculture, 1931–1933
The Years of Hunger: Soviet Agriculture, 1931–1933

Author: R. Davies

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-01-13

Total Pages: 582

ISBN-13: 0230273971

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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.

The Collectivization of Agriculture in Communist Eastern Europe
The Collectivization of Agriculture in Communist Eastern Europe

Author: Constantin Iordachi

Publisher: Central European University Press

Published: 2014-03-31

Total Pages: 571

ISBN-13: 615522563X

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ÿThis book explores the interrelated campaigns of agricultural collectivization in the USSR and in the communist dictatorships established in Soviet-dominated Eastern Europe. Despite the profound, long-term societal impact of collectivization, the subject has remained relatively underresearched. The volume combines detailed studies of collectivization in individual Eastern European states with issueoriented comparative perspectives at regional level. Based on novel primary sources, it proposes a reappraisal of the theoretical underpinnings and research agenda of studies on collectivization in Eastern Europe.The contributions provide up-to-date overviews of recent research in the field and promote new approaches to the topic, combining historical comparisons with studies of transnational transfers and entanglements.

The Private Sector in Soviet Agriculture
The Private Sector in Soviet Agriculture

Author: Karl-Eugen Wädekin

Publisher: University of California Press

Published: 2021-01-08

Total Pages: 428

ISBN-13: 0520309065

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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 1973.

Black Earth, White Bread
Black Earth, White Bread

Author: Susanne A. Wengle

Publisher: University of Wisconsin Pres

Published: 2022-03-15

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13: 0299335402

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Introduction: setting the table -- Governance, or, How to solve the grain problem? -- Production -- Consumption, or, The Perestroika of the quotidian -- Nature -- Conclusion: vulnerabilities.

Corn Crusade
Corn Crusade

Author: Aaron Todd Hale-Dorrell

Publisher:

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 345

ISBN-13: 0190644672

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Scarcely making ends meet -- Industrial agriculture, the logic of corn -- Corn politics -- Better living through corn -- Growing corn, raising citizens -- From Kolkhoznik to wage earner -- American technology, Soviet practice -- Battles over corn

A Century of Russian Agriculture
A Century of Russian Agriculture

Author: Lazar Volin

Publisher:

Published: 2013-10-01

Total Pages: 656

ISBN-13: 9780674366343

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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. Emphasizing the continuity of problems and policies too often dichotomized into tsarist and Soviet eras, Volin created a sweeping panorama of the century between the emancipation of the serfs and the 1960s.

Hammer, Sickle, and Soil
Hammer, Sickle, and Soil

Author: Jonathan Daly

Publisher: Hoover Press

Published: 2017-10-01

Total Pages: 310

ISBN-13: 0817920668

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In Hammer, Sickle, and Soil, Jonathan Daly tells the harrowing story of Stalin's transformation of millions of family farms throughout the USSR into 250,000 collective farms during the period from 1929 to 1933. History's biggest experiment in social engineering at the time and the first example of the complete conquest of the bulk of a population by its rulers, the policy was above all intended to bring to Russia Marx's promised bright future of socialism. In the process, however, it caused widespread peasant unrest, massive relocations, and ultimately led to millions dying in the famine of 1932–33. Drawing on scholarly studies and primary-source collections published since the opening of the Soviet archives three decades ago, now, for the first time, this volume offers an accessible and accurate narrative for the general reader. The book is illustrated with propaganda posters from the period that graphically portray the drama and trauma of the revolution in Soviet agriculture under Stalin. In chilling detail the author describes how the havoc and destruction wrought in the countryside sowed the seeds of destruction of the entire Soviet experiment.

Climate Dependence and Food Problems in Russia, 1900-1990
Climate Dependence and Food Problems in Russia, 1900-1990

Author: N. M. Dronin

Publisher: Central European University Press

Published: 2005-01-01

Total Pages: 394

ISBN-13: 9789637326103

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This book explores the interconnections between climate, policy and agriculture in Russia and the former Soviet Union between 1900 and 1990. During this period there were several periods of grain and other food shortages some of which reached disaster proportions resulting in mass famine and death on an unprecedented scale. traditional official and other sources have been used to explore the extent to which policy and vagaries in climate conspired to affect agricultural yeilds. 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 in this book. various political eras. In each the policy of the central government is discussed followed by the climate vagaries during that period. Crop yeilds are then analysed in the light of policy and climate. these factors from such a wide range of sources in the last century.

The Hungarian Agricultural Miracle?
The Hungarian Agricultural Miracle?

Author: Zsuzsanna Varga

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2020-11-09

Total Pages: 355

ISBN-13: 179363436X

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This book examines Soviet agriculture in post-1945 Hungary. It demonstrates how the agrarian lobby, a development following the 1956 revolution, led to contact with the West which allowed for the creation of an effective agricultural system. The author argues that this ‘Hungarian agricultural miracle,’ a hybrid of American technology and Soviet structures, was fundamental to the success of Hungarian collectivization.