The reconstruction of agriculture in the Soviet Union

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Identifikator:: 1831009781

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-221050

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Gajster, Aron I. http://d-nb.info/gnd/132986779

Title:: The reconstruction of agriculture in the Soviet Union

Place of publication:: Moscow, U. S. S. R.

Publisher:: Lenin Academy of Agricultural Sciences

Year of publication:: [1930]

Scope:: 31, [1] Seiten

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: IX

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By 1927 this proportion had sharply changed in favor of the predominance of the small and middle peasant holdings. To the share of the large kulak holdings fell about 6 per cent of the sown area, 8 per cent of the gross production, and 20 per cent of the commercial grain crop. The rest of the agricultural production was in the hands of the small and middle producers, of the poor and middle peasantry. The elimination of the landowners, the decided cur- tailment of kulak production, the predominance of petty individual holdings in the production of grain— these were the results of the first years of the revolu- tion. This scattered agricultural production the Soviet Government has now definitely turned onto the path of socialist large-scale production, and in 1930 we have in the sector of large-scale socialist grain farms (state and collective farms) about 30 per cent of the sown area, 30 per cent of the gross yield, and 62 per cent of the commercial grain crop, exclusive of local village consumption. At the same time, during the first years of the revolu- tion there took place an uninterrupted growth in the number of peasant holdings. Their number showed an annual increase of 500,000 holdings, 2 to 3 per cent, on the average. The present year is characterized by a definite curtailment of the number of small holdings and by the replacing of 5,778,000 peasant holdings by B2,276 voluntarily organized collective farms. The collectivization of the small and middle peasant holdings has already, in the first stages of its develop- ment, shown the enormous advantages of large-scale socialist farming. Small producers who have joined the collective farms have been able already in the first year of the existence of these farms to lay the founda- tion for large-scale farming; they have been able to 31

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