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The Issue of Alternatives and History of the Collectivisation of Soviet Agriculture
Author(s) -
DANILOV VIKTOR
Publication year - 1989
Publication title -
journal of historical sociology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.186
H-Index - 26
eISSN - 1467-6443
pISSN - 0952-1909
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-6443.1989.tb00129.x
Subject(s) - abandonment (legal) , context (archaeology) , five year plan , position (finance) , agriculture , political science , economic history , plan (archaeology) , history , economics , law , archaeology , finance , china
A Soviet historian reconsiders the history of the collectivisation of Soviet agriculture in the context of today's Perestroika . His focus is on alternatives developed during the 1920s, under NEP. Detailed discussion is provided of Lenin's conception of the role of cooperation in socialist construction, A. V. Chayanov's analysis of ‘cooperative collectivisation’, and (using newly‐opened archives) the position of Bukharin and his followers. The article concludes with a critique of forms of collectivisation pursued after abandonment of the original goals of the first Five Year Plan in 1929.