Government Intervention in Soviet Agriculture
Author : Edward Cook
Publisher :
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 13,17 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Agricultural subsidies
ISBN :
Author : Edward Cook
Publisher :
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 13,17 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Agricultural subsidies
ISBN :
Author : Edward Cook
Publisher :
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 13,22 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Agricultural subsidies
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Author : Robert B. Koopman
Publisher :
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 31,39 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Agricultural innovations
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Author : U S Government Accountability Office (G
Publisher : BiblioGov
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 36,78 MB
Release : 2013-07
Category :
ISBN : 9781289259235
Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reported on: (1) recent Soviet agricultural reforms; and (2) the U.S. government's response to these reforms. GAO found that: (1) the overall objective of the Soviet Union's agricultural strategy was to improve the quality and quantity of food available to its citizens by restructuring investments, streamlining the bureaucracy, and improving economic incentives; (2) Soviet food reforms focused on supply rather than demand factors, which has increased productivity but has worsened the balance in the food economy; (3) key problems plaguing Soviet agriculture include confusion about the direction of reform, bureaucratic resistance, little autonomy for farmers contending with serious supply problems, serious infrastructure problems in transportation, storage, and processing, persistent risk-averse behavior of farm workers, the inability to introduce workable price reform, and monetary imbalances in the overall Soviet economy; (4) the Soviet Union continues to import huge quantities of grain and other agricultural commodities in spite of its agricultural reforms; (5) the United States has entered into long-term bilateral grain agreements with the Soviet Union to minimize market disruptions, stabilize U.S. domestic prices, promote an orderly expansion of trade between the two countries, and enlarge an agricultural export market with a potentially large customer; and (6) U.S. government officials and private-sector analysts question the advisability of offering export credit guarantees to the Soviet Union in light of its human rights violations, its collapsing economy, and its deteriorating creditworthiness.
Author : Stefan Hedlund
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 26,15 MB
Release : 2019-08-06
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1000681521
First published in 1989. Perestroika, it was widely believed, must succeed in agriculture before permanent change could be affected elsewhere in the Soviet economy. But Soviet agriculture had so far remained stubbornly inefficient and resistant to change. In this book Stefan Hedlund investigates the reasons for this state of affairs. The author gives an account of the emergence, development and performance of private agriculture in the Soviet Union. In particular he describes the essentials of the peculiarly Soviet hybrid of private and socialized agriculture. He places the private sector within the broader framework of Soviet agriculture. He saw Soviet agriculture as a ‘Black Hole’, ready to absorb any resources that came near, be they private plots, urban gardens, factory workshops or military units. Hedlund also examines the impact on the peasants as producers of decades of negative ideological pronouncements in Party propaganda, and of discrimination and at times outright harassment by local officials. He points out that this background makes the prospect of any positive response from the peasants to Gorbachev’s call for perestroika in agriculture extremely unlikely.
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture. Subcommittee on Wheat, Soybeans, and Feed Grains
Publisher :
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 16,67 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Agriculture
ISBN :
Author : Harry G. Shaffer
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 41,92 MB
Release : 1977
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
Compilation of articles on the contribution of the agricultural sector to economic development in the USSR - examines soviet agricultural policy, the impact of collective farming, the attempt to equalize living conditions in rural areas and urban areas, the socialist transformation of agriculture and the achievements and prospects for increased efficiency, etc. References and statistical tables.
Author : Diane P. Koenker
Publisher :
Page : 836 pages
File Size : 17,28 MB
Release : 2011-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781780393803
Author : Peter Rutland
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 36,90 MB
Release : 2009-10-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780521121309
Peter Rutland analyzes the role played by regional and local organs of the Soviet Communist Party in economic management from 1970 to 1989. Using a range of Soviet political and economic journals, newspapers and academic publications, he examines Communist Party economic interventions in construction, energy, transport, consumer goods, and agriculture. He convincingly argues that party interventions hindered rather than assisted the search for efficiency in the Soviet economy and represent a major obstacle to the current economic reform movement.
Author : Grīgoriǐ Ratner
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 12,95 MB
Release : 2023
Category : BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
ISBN : 9781003391814
Agricultural Co-operation in the Soviet Union (1929) examines agriculture in the USSR as the government was restructuring all national economic life and enterprise on a state socialist basis. It looks at the significance of farming co-operatives in Soviet agricultural planning and describes the actual work of the agricultural co-operatives.