The Industrialisation of Soviet Russia 1: Socialist Offensive: The Collectivisation of Soviet Agriculture, 1929-30

by Robert William Davies

By the summer of 1929 Soviet industrialisation was well under way, but agriculture was in a profound crisis: in 1928 and 1929 grain to feed the towns was wrested from the peasants by force, and the twenty-five million individual peasant households lost the stimulus to extend or even to maintain their production. In the autumn of 1929 the Soviet Politburo, led by Stalin, launched its desperate effort to win the battle for agriculture by forcible collectivisation...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0333261712
• ISBN13: 9780333261712
• Release Date: July 1980
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 491 Pages
• Weight: 1.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.5" x 8.5"