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Author Davies, R. W. (Robert William), 1925-2021.

Title The years of hunger : Soviet agriculture, 1931-1933 / R.W. Davies and Stephen G. Wheatcroft.

Publication Info. New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.

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 Moore Stacks  HD1492.R9 Y43 2009    Available  ---
Edition [Rev. ed.].
Description xxv, 555 pages ; 23 cm.
Series The industrialisation of Soviet Russia ; 5
Davies, R. W. (Robert William), 1925-2021. Industrialisation of Soviet Russia ; 5.
Note Preface to revised edition (p. xiii-xx) dated June 2009.
Includes appendixes and glossary.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 522-532) and name and subject indexes.
Contents The second collectivisation drive, 1931 --- The second phase of dekulakisation, 1931 --- The 1931 grain harvest --- Grain collections from the 1931 harvest --- The 1932 grain harvest --- Grain collections from the 1932 harvest --- The 1933 grain harvest --- Grain collections from the 1933 harvest --- Crops other than grain --- The livestock disaster --- The sovkhozy --- The kolkhozy --- The famine in perspective.
Summary The fifth volume in a landmark series of independent volumes on the Industrialisation of Soviet Russia, this work covers the years 1929-1937, the crucial period of the first two five-year plans. In these years the Soviet Union became a great industrial power, and the economic system took the form which, in its main features, it retained until the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. Agriculture was collectivised and the whole economy was subordinated to central state planning: the Stalinist political regime was consolidated a new social structure emerged. This was the first attempt of a major country to manage economic and social development by a comprehensive plan. The weaknesses which ultimately led to its failure may partly be traced back to the 1930s: the tendency to overinvestment and overtaut planning, the inability to innovate, and the frustration of the grandiose efforts to modernise agriculture. While the Soviet system ultimately failed, Soviet industrialisation was a crucial stage in spreading the economic and social transformation which began in England in the middle of the eighteenth century to the thousands of millions of peasants who lived on the borders of starvation in Asia, Africa and Latin America.-- Publisher description.
Subject Collectivization of agriculture -- Soviet Union -- History.
Collectivization of agriculture.
Soviet Union.
History.
Collective farms -- Soviet Union -- History.
Collective farms.
Famines -- Soviet Union -- History.
Famines.
Soviet Union -- Economic policy -- 1928-1932.
Economic policy.
Chronological Term 1928-1932
Subject Soviet Union -- Economic policy -- 1933-1937.
Chronological Term 1933-1937
1928-1937
Genre/Form History.
Added Author Wheatcroft, S. G.
ISBN 0230238556 (paperback)
0333311078 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
9780230238558 (paperback)
9780333311073 (cloth ; alkaline paper)