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Some Major Persisting Problems in Soviet Agriculture

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 January 2017

Jerzy F. Karcz
Jerzy F. Karcz*
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University of California, Santa Barbara
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Slavic Review , Volume 29 , Issue 3 , September 1970 , pp. 417 - 426
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Copyright © Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies. 1970

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1. Tsentral'noe statisticheskoe upravlenie pri Sovete Ministrov SSSR, Narodnoe khosiaistvo SSSR v 1968 g. (Moscow, 1969), p. 349.

2. Karcz, J. F., “Seven Years on the Farm : Retrospect and Prospect,” in U.S. Congress, Joint Economic Committee, New Directions in the Soviet Economy, part 2-B (Washington, D.C., 1966), pp. 402–10.Google Scholar

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5. Nar. khos., 1968, pp. 609, 618.

6. Ibid., p. 529. See also Christian Science Monitor, Apr. 13, 14, IS, 16, 1969, and New York Times, Apr. 5, 1969, sec. 4, p. 2.

7. Pravda, Apr. 10, 1966, and the speech by Gosplan chairman N. K. Baibakov, Pravda, Dec. 17, 1969. The planned increase in the consumption of grapes and fruit was to be 45 to 50 percent, while the corresponding range for meat and meat products was 20 to 25 percent. According to Baibakov, the expected increase for fruit and grapes will come to 18 percent and that for meat and meat products to 15 percent.

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10. Shvydko, “Kompleksnaia mekhanizatsiia i elektrifikatsiia,” p. 43, and Loza, Vosproisvodstvo, p. 122.

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13. Zhurikov, “Luchshe ispol'zovat’ mery material'nogo pooshchreniia kolkhoznikov, “ p. 10; Voronov's speech was published in Leninskaia snamia, Mar. 24, 1970. I quote from a report by Paul Wohl in Christian Science Monitor, Apr. 14, 1970.

14. Smugiryn, M, “Rezervy snizheniia sebestoimosti kormov,” Ekonomika sel'skogo khosiaistva, 1969, no. 9, p. 57 Google Scholar, and L. Florentiev, “Puti povysheniia proizvoditel'nosti truda i snizheniia sebestoimosti,” ibid., p. 48.

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23. Wädekin, “Manpower in Soviet Agriculture,” pp. 291-92.

24. Bulochnikova, “Sel'skaia migratsiia,” p. 72.

25. Nar. khos., 1968, pp. 448, 454, 565, 691.

26. Wädekin, “Manpower in Soviet Agriculture/’ pp. 293-94, and Nar. khos., 1968, pp. 448, 454.

27. For example, the complaints about restrictions made at the session of the Latvian Central Committee and reported in Pravda, Jan. 21, 1970.

28. Sel'skaia shizn', July 3, 1970. See also ibid., July 4, 18, 19, 21, and 25 and Aug. 7, 1970.