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Works in Progress: Plans and Realities on Soviet Farms, 1930-1963 (Agrarian Studies) - Hardcover

Buch 31 von 63: Yale Agrarian Studies

Smith, Jenny Leigh

 
9780300200690: Works in Progress: Plans and Realities on Soviet Farms, 1930-1963 (Agrarian Studies)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0300200692 ISBN 13: 9780300200690
Verlag: Yale University Press, 2014

Inhaltsangabe

What really caused the failure of the Soviet Union's ambitious plans to modernize and industrialize its agricultural system?

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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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Jenny Leigh Smith is assistant professor of history in the School of History, Technology and Society, Georgia Institute of Technology. She lives in Atlanta, GA.

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Verlag
Yale University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2014
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0300200692
ISBN 13 
9780300200690
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Anzahl der Seiten
288
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