Works in Progress: Plans and Realities on Soviet Farms, 1930-1963

by Jenny Leigh Smith

What really caused the failure of the Soviet Union's ambitious plans to modernize and industrialize its agricultural system?

This book is the first to investigate the gap between the plans and the reality of the Soviet Union's mid-twentieth-century project to industrialize and modernize its agricultural system. Historians agree that the project failed badly: agriculture was inefficient, unpredictable, and environmentally devastating...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300200692
• ISBN13: 9780300200690
• Release Date: October 2014
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.6" x 8.3"