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Table of Contents:

• A false start : the birth and early activities of the People's Commissariat of Agriculture, 1917-1920
• A struggle for identity : the uncertain transition to the New Economic Policy, 1921-1923
• "Too many comrades misunderstand the countryside" : a commissariat comes of age, 1923-1926
• Socialism in one countryside : architects of a new rural Russia, 1923-1926
• Professional identity and the vision of the modern Soviet countryside : local agricultural specialists, 1927-1929
• Better red than bread? : purge, collectivization, and the defeat of the People's Commissariat of Agriculture, 1927-1929.

Author/Creator:

Heinzen, James W.

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Inventing a Soviet countryside: state power and the transformation of rural Russia, 1917-1929 [by Heinzen, J.W.]

Related Series:

Series in Russian and East European studies

Subjects:

Russian S.F.S.R. Narodnyĭ komissariat zemledelii︠a︡

Agriculture and state — Soviet Union — History

Agriculture — Economic aspects — Soviet Union — History

Rural development — Soviet Union

Peasants — Soviet Union — History

Soviet Union — Economic policy — 1917-1928

Russian S.F.S.R. Narodnyĭ komissariat zemledelii͡a

1917-1928

Agriculture — Economic aspects

Agriculture

Rural development

Peasants

Economic policy

Agriculture and state

Russia (Federation)

Soviet Union

Genres:

History

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-290) and index.

Physical Description:

x, 297 pages ; 25 cm.

Call Numbers:

HD1992 .H45 2004

ISBNs:

0822942151 (cloth, alk. paper)

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2003015074

OCLC Numbers:

52595198