The Soviet Agrarian Debate

Author : Susan Gross Solomon
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000305619
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Soviet Agrarian Debate written by Susan Gross Solomon and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-07-16 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first decade of Soviet cultural life was marked by a pluralism unmatched in the subsequent history of the USSR. In many fields of art and science, Party and non-Party "proletarian" and "bourgeois" intellectuals worked side by side, vigorously debating questions of substance and method. In this first major study of a Soviet field of social science in the post-Revolution period, Dr. Solomon examines the controversy that divided social scientists studying the economy and society of the Soviet peasant during the 1920s. The intellectual disagreements in post-Revolution Soviet rural studies were exacerbated by social, political, and professional differences among the contending scholars. The infighting between the groups was bitter. Yet in contrast to recent studies of other Soviet professions in the 1920s, the author finds that in rural studies Marxists and non-Marxists had much in common. Her findings suggest that the coexistence of the "old" and the "new" in Soviet rural studies might have lasted for some time had not external political forces intervened in late 1928, acting as a pressure on the field and eventually causing its demise.

Author : S. Wegren
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230601138
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Moral Economy Reconsidered written by S. Wegren and published by Springer. This book was released on 2005-08-19 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sure to be controversial and spur debate, this book presents a powerful analysis of rural change to marketization and globalization. Using Russia as a case study, it examines the how the rural population responded to reform policies during the transition away from communism. Wegren draws upon extensive field work, survey data, interviews, and wide-ranging Russian language source material to investigate adaptive behaviours by different groups of the rural population. The differentiated and nuanced analysis sheds considerable light on debates over whether actors are motivated mainly by rational or moral considerations.

Author : Peter H. Solomon
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 9780367295912
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Soviet Agrarian Deba/h written by Peter H. Solomon and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-06-30 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first decade of Soviet cultural life was marked by a pluralism unmatched in the subsequent history of the USSR. In many fields of art and science, Party and non-Party "proletarian" and "bourgeois" intellectuals worked side by side, vigorously debating questions of substance and method. In this first major study of a Soviet field of social science in the post-Revolution period, Dr. Solomon examines the controversy that divided social scientists studying the economy and society of the Soviet peasant during the 1920s. The intellectual disagreements in post-Revolution Soviet rural studies were exacerbated by social, political, and professional differences among the contending scholars. The infighting between the groups was bitter. Yet in contrast to recent studies of other Soviet professions in the 1920s, the author finds that in rural studies Marxists and non-Marxists had much in common. Her findings suggest that the coexistence of the "old" and the "new" in Soviet rural studies might have lasted for some time had not external political forces intervened in late 1928, acting as a pressure on the field and eventually causing its demise.

Author : R. Davies
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230273971
Total Pages : 555 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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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 555 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.

Author : Aaron T. Hale-Dorrell
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0190644672
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Corn Crusade written by Aaron T. Hale-Dorrell and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2018-12-03 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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

Author : David J. O'Brien
Publisher : Woodrow Wilson Center Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801869600
Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rural Reform in Post-Soviet Russia written by David J. O'Brien and published by Woodrow Wilson Center Press. This book was released on 2002-03-20 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rural Reform in Post-Soviet Russia reviews change in agricultural and rural life since 1990 through historical, political, sociological, and anthropological investigation. The contributors' interest is not so much in agriculture itself but in agrarian issues such as the relationship between rural interests and changing Russian institutions, the economic and social organization of rural households, and the quality of life in rural families and villages.

Author : Carol S. Leonard
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139491385
Total Pages : 419 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Agrarian Reform in Russia written by Carol S. Leonard and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-12-06 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the history of reforms and major state interventions affecting Russian agriculture: the abolition of serfdom in 1861, the Stolypin reforms, the NEP, the Collectivization, Khrushchev reforms, and finally farm enterprise privatization in the early 1990s. It shows a pattern emerging from a political imperative in imperial, Soviet, and post-Soviet regimes, and it describes how these reforms were justified in the name of the national interest during severe crises - rapid inflation, military defeat, mass strikes, rural unrest, and/or political turmoil. It looks at the consequences of adversity in the economic environment for rural behavior after reform and at long-run trends. It has chapters on property rights, rural organization, and technological change. It provides a new database for measuring agricultural productivity from 1861 to 1913 and updates these estimates to the present. This book is a study of the policies aimed at reorganizing rural production and their effectiveness in transforming institutions.

Author : Henry Bernstein
Publisher : Kumarian Press
ISBN 13 : 1565493567
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Class Dynamics of Agrarian Change written by Henry Bernstein and published by Kumarian Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Henry Bernstein argues that class dynamics should be the starting point of any analysis of agrarian change. Providing an accessible introduction to agrarian political economy, he shows clearly how the argument for "bringing class back in" provides an alternative to inherited conceptions of the agrarian question. He also ably illustrates what is at stake in different ways of thinking about class dynamics and the effects of agrarian change in today's globalized world. CONTENTS: Introduction: The Political Economy of Agrarian Change. Production and Productivity. Origins of Early Development of Capitalism. Colonialism and Capitalism. Farming and Agriculture, Local and Global. Neoliberal Globalization and World Agriculture. Capitalist Agriculture and Non-Capitalist Farmers? Class Formation in the Countryside. Complexities of Class.

Author : Y. Kotsonis
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230376304
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Making Peasants Backward written by Y. Kotsonis and published by Springer. This book was released on 1999-06-30 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this first monograph on the Russian cooperative movement before 1914, economic and social change is considered alongside Russian political culture. Looking at such historical actors as Sergei Witte, Piotr Stolypin, and Alexander Chaianov, and by tapping into several newly opened Russian local and state archives on peasant practice in the movement, Kotsonis suggests how cooperatives reflected a pan-European dilemma over whether and to what extent populations could participate in their own transformation.

Author : James W. Heinzen
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
ISBN 13 : 0822970783
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Inventing a Soviet Countryside written by James W. Heinzen and published by University of Pittsburgh Pre. This book was released on 2004-02-01 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following the largest peasant revolution in history, Russia's urban-based Bolshevik regime was faced with a monumental task: to peacefully "modernize" and eventually "socialize" the peasants in the countryside surrounding Russia's cities. To accomplish this, the Bolshevik leadership created the People's Commissariat of Agriculture (Narkomzem), which would eventually employ 70,000 workers. This commissariat was particularly important, both because of massive famine and because peasants composed the majority of Russia's population; it was also regarded as one of the most moderate state agencies because of its nonviolent approach to rural transformation.Working from recently opened historical archives, James Heinzen presents a balanced, thorough examination of the political, social, and cultural dilemmas present in the Bolsheviks' strategy for modernizing of the peasantry. He especially focuses on the state employees charged with no less than a complete transformation of an entire class of people. Heinzen ultimately shows how disputes among those involved in this plan-from the government, to Communist leaders, to the peasants themselves-led to the shuttering of the Commissariat of Agriculture and to Stalin's cataclysmic 1929 collectivization of agriculture.