Prospects For Soviet Grain Production
Prospects For Soviet Grain Production

Author: Brigitta Young

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-06-04

Total Pages: 149

ISBN-13: 1000308391

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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

Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

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Publisher:

Published: 1983-02

Total Pages: 56

ISBN-13:

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The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists is the premier public resource on scientific and technological developments that impact global security. Founded by Manhattan Project Scientists, the Bulletin's iconic "Doomsday Clock" stimulates solutions for a safer world.

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

Author: Nikolai M. Dronin

Publisher: Central European University Press

Published: 2006-06-20

Total Pages: 386

ISBN-13: 6155053685

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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.