The Industrialisation of Soviet Russia Volume

This is the first comprehensive survey of the grim years of the Soviet famine to be based on formerly secret and top secret Russian and Ukrainian archives. It considers the famine against the background of the long-term and medium term factors which led to the agricultural crisis, and assesses the extent to which the famine was 'organized' or 'artificial'. Its conclusions are very different from those of many other historians, such as Robert Conquest, who had argued previously that the 1933 famine was a deliberate political act. This paperback edition includes a new preface discussing recent controversies about the famine. Book jacket.

R. W. DAVIES is Emeritus Professor of Soviet Economic Studies in the Centre for Russian and East European Studies, University of Birmingham, UK, of which he was the foundation director. He has published many books and articles on Soviet history, including Soviet History in the Gorbachev Revolution, Soviet History in the Yeltsin Era, Soviet Economic Development from Lenin to Khrushchev, and four previous volumes in the series The Industrialisation of Soviet Russia. He collaborated with E. H. Carr on vols. 9 and 10 of The History of Soviet Russia. He is an honorary life member of the British Association of Slavonic and East European Studies.

STEPHEN G. WHEATCROFT is Professor in Russian and Soviet History at the University of Melbourne, Australia, where he was the First Director of the Centre for Russian and Euroasian Studies. He has written many articles on agriculture and population in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union.

List of Tables	p. ix
Preface to Revised Edition	p. xiii
Preface to 2004 Edition	p. xxi
The Second Collectivisation Drive, 1931	p. 1
The Second Phase of Dekulakisation, 1931	p. 20
The 1931 Grain Harvest	p. 48
The Autumn Sowing, 1930	p. 48
The Spring Sowing	p. 53
The Harvest	p. 65
Grain Collections from the 1931 Harvest	p. 79
The Collection Plan	p. 79
The Campaign	p. 91
The 1932 Grain Harvest	p. 105
The Autumn Sowing, 1931	p. 105
The Spring Sowing, 1932	p. 107
The Harvest	p. 123
Grain Collections from the 1932 Harvest	p. 137
The Grain Collection Plan for 1932/33	p. 137
First Stage of the Campaign, July-November 1932	p. 142
Resistance	p. 144
Enforcement	p. 162
Relaxation	p. 181
The Desperate Battle for Grain, December 1932-February 1933	p. 185
The revised grain distribution plan, December 9, 1932	p. 185
The December collections	p. 187
The January 1933 collections	p. 197
The grain collections and the January plenum	p. 201
Grain in the Time of Famine, February-July 1933	p. 204
Famine	p. 204
The First All-Union Congress of Kolkhoz Shock Workers	p. 207
The grain collections	p. 209
Relaxation and repression	p. 211
The grain budget	p. 224
The 1933 Grain Harvest	p. 231
The Autumn Sowing, 1932	p. 231
The Spring Sowing, 1933	p. 233
The Harvest	p. 239
Measuring the Harvest	p. 243
Grain Collections from the 1933 Harvest	p. 250
The Law on Compulsory Deliveries	p. 250
The Grain Plan	p. 259
The Collections	p. 262
Crops Other than Grain	p. 268
Food Crops	p. 269
Sugar beet	p. 269
Potatoes and vegetables	p. 274
Vegetable oils	p. 283
A note on 'decentralised collections' of food	p. 288
Industrial Crops	p. 291
Cotton	p. 291
Flax	p. 298
The Livestock Disaster	p. 301
The Drive for Socialisation, Autumn 1930 to December 1931	p. 301
The Retreat from Socialisation, 1932/33	p. 309
The Kazakh Catastrophe	p. 321
The Outcome	p. 326
The Sovkhozy	p. 332
The Kolkhozy	p. 348
State Control of the Kolkhoz	p. 351
The Structure of the Kolkhoz	p. 364
The Kolkhoz Brigade	p. 370
The Income of the Collective Farmer	p. 375
Remuneration from the kolkhoz: the problem of the labour day	p. 375
Remuneration from the kolkhoz: payment in money	p. 382
Remuneration from the kolkhoz: payment in kind	p. 384
The household plot	p. 389
Earnings from otkhodnichestvo	p. 392
Money Income as a Whole	p. 397
The Famine in Perspective	p. 400
Famines before 1930	p. 402
1891/92	p. 402
The double famine of 1918-22	p. 403
The Urban Food Crisis of 1928-33	p. 406
The Famine in Kazakhstan	p. 408
The Rural Famine of 1932-33	p. 409
Areas affected by the famine	p. 409
Deaths from the famine	p. 412
Excess deaths by region	p. 415
Excess deaths by social group	p. 417
Use of food substitutes	p. 421
Cannibalism	p. 421
Food assistance	p. 424
Movement control	p. 426
Disease	p. 429
Causes of the Famine	p. 431
Background	p. 431
Why did agricultural production decline so precipitately?	p. 434
Coping with the famine crisis	p. 440
Appendix: A Note on the Grain Harvests	p. 442
Tables	p. 448
Glossary of Terms and Abbreviations used in Text	p. 514
Abbreviations of Titles of Books and Periodical Publications, etc., used in Footnote	p. 521
Bibliography	p. 522
Name Index	p. 533
Subject Index	p. 538
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The Industrialisation of Soviet Russia Volume 5: The Years of Hunger Soviet Agriculture 1931-1933

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