The Industrialisation of Soviet Russia #2) The Soviet Collective Farm, 1929–1930 (1980)

During the events described in The Socialist Offensive the collective farms achieved a commanding position in the Soviet countryside. They were planned as giant, fully socialist enterprises, modelled on the state-owned factories, and employing wage labour. By the summer of 1930 the collective-farm compromise had been introduced. Collective farmers were permitted to retain a personal household plot and their own animals; and a free market continued side by side with state planning. This system continued throughout the Stalin period important features of it remain in the Soviet Union today. The emergence of the collective farm in 1929-30, discussed in detail in the present volume, was thus a crucial stage in the formation of the Soviet system. Front Matter....Pages i-x The State and the Kolkhoz....Pages 1-14 The Machine-Tractor Stations....Pages 15-33 The Size of the Kolkhoz....Pages 34-55 The Structure of the Kolkhoz....Pages 56-67 Socialisation within the Kolkhoz....Pages 68-115 Kolkhoz Income and Capital....Pages 116-130 The Personal Income of the Collective Farmer....Pages 131-170 Conclusions....Pages 171-178 Back Matter....Pages 179-216 This study examines the critical period of the first two Soviet Five-Year Plans, when a new social structure emerged as Stalin's political regime was consolidated and agriculture collectivized. It focuses on the relation between economic policy, political institutions and the environment. Annotation This study examines the critical period of the first two Soviet Five-Year Plans, during which agriculture was collectivized, the economy subordinated to central state planning, the Stalin political regime consolidated and a new social structure created