1st Edition

Private Agriculture in the Soviet Union

By Stefan Hedlund Copyright 1989
224 Pages
by Routledge

224 Pages
by Routledge

224 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more

List of Tables;  Introduction;  Preface;  1. A Black Hole in the Soviet Economy  2. The Emergence of a ‘Support’ Agriculture  3. The Two Fringes of Soviet Agriculture  4. The Soviet Attitudes to the Private Sector  5. The Practice of Harassment  6. Response to Decline  7. A Pyrrhic Victory and its Consequences;  Notes;  Bibliography;  Index

Biography

Stefan Hedlund