1st Edition
The Future Of Agriculture In The Soviet Union And Eastern Europe The 19761980 Fiveyear Plans
256 Pages
by
Routledge
256 Pages
by
Routledge
256 Pages
by
Routledge
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In the 1970s Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union have changed from being net grain exporters to major grain importers. Clearly, unfavorable weather has played a key role in this dramatic reversal. However, as several of the authors of this book argue, bad policies have played a key role. In the authors’ analyses of the new five-year plans, a serious question is raised as to whether the nations... Read more
Preface -- Introduction -- The U.S.S.R -- Shifts to Off-Farm Agricultural Inputs in the Tenth Economic Plan: The Economic and Institutional Implications -- The Widening Soviet Grain Gap and Prospects for 1980 and 1990 -- The Agricultural Potential of the Nonchernozem Zone -- Soviet Agriculture in the 1976–80 Plan -- Eastern Europe -- Prospects for the Future of Polish Agriculture -- Poland’s Uncertain Five-Year Plan -- Principal Characteristics of Agricultural Policy Trends in Czechoslovakia -- Hungary’s New Agricultural Revolution and Its Promise for the Fifth Five-Year Plan -- The Future of East German Agriculture: The Feasibility of the 1976–80 Plan -- Eastern European and Soviet Trade -- Eastern Europe’s New Five-Year Plans: The Outlook for Intra-CMEA and East-West Trade
Biography
"Roy D. Laird, professor of political science and Slavic and Soviet area studies at the University of Kansas, is founder of the continuing Conference on Soviet and East European Agricultural and Peasant Affairs. Joseph Hajda is associate professor of political science, Kansas State University, and a research political scientist with the Kansas Agricultural Experiment Station. Betty A. Laird is an independent research analyst specializing in rural affairs and Soviet agriculture."
