The Industrialisation of Soviet Russia 2: Soviet Collective Farm, 1929-1930
The Industrialisation of Soviet Russia 2: Soviet Collective Farm, 1929-1930

Author: R. W. Davies

Publisher: Springer

Published: 1989-05-05

Total Pages: 226

ISBN-13: 1349102555

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During the events described in The Socialist Offensive the collective farms achieved a commanding position in the Soviet countryside. They were planned as giant, fully socialist enterprises, modelled on the state-owned factories, and employing wage labour. By the summer of 1930 the collective-farm compromise had been introduced. Collective farmers were permitted to retain a personal household plot and their own animals; and a free market continued side by side with state planning. This system continued throughout the Stalin period important features of it remain in the Soviet Union today. The emergence of the collective farm in 1929-30, discussed in detail in the present volume, was thus a crucial stage in the formation of the Soviet system.

The Industrialisation of Soviet Russia Volume 6: The Years of Progress
The Industrialisation of Soviet Russia Volume 6: The Years of Progress

Author: R. Davies

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2014-07-09

Total Pages: 513

ISBN-13: 113736257X

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Based on extensive research in formerly secret archives, this volume examines the progress of Soviet industrialisation against the background of the rising threat of aggression from Germany, Japan and Italy, and the consolidation of Stalin's power.

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.