Soviet Agriculture in Perspective - A Study of Its Successes and Failures

Soviet Agriculture in Perspective (1969) examines the framework of Soviet agriculture and in analysing Soviet agricultural policy, it looks at the appropriate volume of agricultural output, the need for massive capital investment, the level of prices and costs, and the optimum size of a farm.

List of contents

1. Historical Signposts Part 1. Starting Points 2. The Permanent Challenge of Soviet Agriculture 3. Bureaucratic Dictatorship and Agricultural Policy 4. Agriculture in Soviet Economic Development Part 2. The Past 5. Agricultural Policy, 1917–28 6. The Second Agrarian Revolution and its Aftermath 7. War, Recovery and Stalemate, 1941–53 8. The Khrushchev Era, 1953–64 9. After Khrushchev Part 3. Problems and Prospects 10. Open Questions 11. The Balance of Soviet Agriculture

About the author

Erich Strauss

Summary

Soviet Agriculture in Perspective (1969) examines the framework of Soviet agriculture and in analysing Soviet agricultural policy, it looks at the appropriate volume of agricultural output, the need for massive capital investment, the level of prices and costs, and the optimum size of a farm.

Product details

• Authors: Erich Strauss, Strauss Erich
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 14.06.2023
• EAN: 9781032488820
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3248882-0
• No. of pages: 328
• Series: Routledge Library Editions: Soviet Economics
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Contemporary history (1945 to 1989); Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Agriculture / General, Agriculture and farming, AGRICULTURE & FARMING, Former Soviet Union, USSR (Europe), USSR, Soviet Union, Agribusiness and primary industries, Primary industries