Works in Progress: Plans and Realities on Soviet Farms, 1930-1963
Language: English
Published by Yale University Press, 2014
- Hardcover
- Used
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Unmarked. Maps. A few black and white images. Notes. Glossary of Russian terms. Index. 272p. Using case studies 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.
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- Title
- Works in Progress: Plans and Realities on Soviet Farms, 1930-1963
- Author
- Smith, Jenny Leigh
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Publication year
- 2014
- Condition
- Very Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0300200692
- ISBN 13
- 9780300200690
- Item weight
- 15 ounces
- Series
- Book 31 of 63: Yale Agrarian Studies
- Seller catalogs
- Eurasia
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.
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