One Hundred Thousand Tractors: The MTS and the Development of Controls in Soviet Agriculture (Russian Research Center Studies)

Frontmatter......Page 1 Preface......Page 5 Contents......Page 13 Chapter 1 The Prehistory of the MTS......Page 17 Chapter 2 The Development of the MTS System......Page 50 Chapter 3 The MTS and Soviet Ideology......Page 77 Chapter 4 The Organization of the Individual Machine- Tractor Station......Page 113 Chapter 5 The MTS and the Administration of Soviet Agriculture......Page 150 Chapter 6 The Party and Agriculture......Page 201 Chapter 7 The Party and MTS Construction 1929-1932......Page 219 Chapter 8 The Politotdels 1933-1934......Page 230 Chapter 9 The MTS and the Normalization of Party Controls 1935-1939......Page 259 Chapter 10 The Wartime Politotdels......Page 275 Chapter 11 The Party and the MTS in the Postwar Period......Page 284 Chapter 12 Closer to Production The MTS and the Raikom in the Final Period......Page 300 Chapter 13 The Liquidation of the MTS......Page 315 Chapter 14 Conclusions......Page 340 Chapter 15 Epilogue......Page 350 Appendix......Page 377 Notes......Page 383 Index......Page 429 "Few of us question the slips of green paper that come and go in our purses, pockets, and wallets. Yet confidence in the money supply is a recent phenomenon. Prior to the Civil War, the United States did not have a single, national currency. Instead, countless banks issued paper money in a bewildering variety of denominations and designs -- more than ten thousand different kinds by 1860. Counterfeiters flourished amid this anarchy, putting vast quantities of bogus bills into circulation."--Cover