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Soviet Agriculture with and without Collectivization, 1928-1940

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 January 2017

Holland Hunter*
Affiliation:
Department of Economics, Haverford College

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Copyright © Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies. 1988

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References

1. See his Economic Rationality and Soviet Politics, or Was Stalin Really Necessary? (New York: Praeger, 1964), pp. 27–57.

2. See Barsov, A. A., Balans stoimostnykh obmenov mezhdu gorodom i derevnei (Moscow: Nauka, 1969 Google Scholar; Ellman, Michael, Collectivization, Convergence and Capitalism (London: Academic, 1984), esp.pp. 2757 Google Scholar; Millar , James R., “Mass Collectivization and the Contribution of Agriculture to the First Five-Year Plan,Slavic Review 33 (December 1974): 750766.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

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4. Davies, R. W., The Collectivization of Soviet Agriculture, 1929–1930 (Cambridge: Harvard UniversityPress, 1980), pp. 2223.Google Scholar

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9. For the 1940 sown area in pre-1939 territory, see Akademiia Nauk SSSR, Institut Ekonomiki, Sotsialisticheskoe narodnoe khoziaistvo SSSR v 1933–1940 gg. (Moscow: AN SSSR, 1963), p. 472 Google Scholar; other data from TsSU, Sel'skoe khoziaistvo SSSR (Moscow: Gosstatizdat TsSU, 1960), p. 127.

10. See Gale Johnson, D. and Kahan, Arcadius, “Soviet Agriculture: Structure and Growth,” in U.S.Congress, Joint Economic Committee, Comparison of the United States and Soviet Economies (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1959), p. 211.Google Scholar

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12. Jasny, Socialized Agriculture, p. 508.

13. See Stephan Merl, “Handlungsspielräume und Sachzwange in der sowjetischen Wirtschafts und Sozialpolitik der Zwischenkriegszeit,” pp. 175–229, in Sachzwange und Handlungsspielräume in der Wirtschafts- und Sozialpolitik der Zwischenkriegszeit (Berlin: Wolfram Fischer, 1985), esp. p. 214.

14. AN SSSR, Sotsialisticheskoe narodnoe khoziaistvo 1933–1940, p. 475, citing Istoriia velikoi otechestvennoi voiny Sovetskogo Soiuza 1941–1945 gg. (1960) 1: 412.