Works in Progress : Plans and Realities on Soviet Farms, 1930-1963 / Jenny Leigh Smith.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Smith, Jenny Leigh, Author.

Series:

Yale Agrarian Studies Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Agriculture--Soviet Union--History.

Agriculture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (288 p.)

Place of Publication:

New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, [2014]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book is the first to investigate the gap between the plans and the reality of the Soviet Union's mid-twentieth-century project to industrialize and modernize its agricultural system. Historians agree that the project failed badly: agriculture was inefficient, unpredictable, and environmentally devastating for the entire Soviet period. Yet assigning the blame exclusively to Soviet planners would be off the mark. The real story is much more complicated and interesting, Jenny Leigh Smith reveals in this deeply researched book. Using case studies from five Soviet regions, she acknowledges hubris and shortsightedness where it occurred but also gives fair consideration to the difficulties encountered and the successes-however modest-that were achieved.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Model Farms and Foreign Experts

2. Restoring Control

3. Animal Farms

4. Substituting Meat

5. The Old and the New

Epilogue

Archives and Contemporary Periodicals

Notes

Glossary of Russian Terms

Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9780300210316

0300210310

OCLC:

893439883