The Party and Agricultural Crisis Management in the USSR / / Cynthia Kaplan.
Why have attempts at agricultural reform so often been frustrated in the Soviet Union? Cynthia S. Kaplan explores this question in the first book-length study of the Communist party's involvement in agriculture. Using the insights of organizational theory, she analyzes the role played by local...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2019] ©1987 |
Year of Publication: | 2019 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Studies in Soviet history and society
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (224 p.) |
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Other title: | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Glossary -- 1. Introduction: Party Unity and Soviet Development -- 2. The Policy Environment -- 3. Postwar Agricultural Policies -- 4. Agricultural Leaders -- 5. The Party and Rural Party Leaders -- 6. The Local Party and Agricultural Crisis Management -- 7. The Reality behind the Monolith: Local Party Behavior in Industry and Agriculture -- 8. The Party in a Complex Society -- Selected Bibliography -- Index |
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Summary: | Why have attempts at agricultural reform so often been frustrated in the Soviet Union? Cynthia S. Kaplan explores this question in the first book-length study of the Communist party's involvement in agriculture. Using the insights of organizational theory, she analyzes the role played by local party organs in implementing agricultural policy, particularly during the little-studied postwar years when the patterns that still govern party behavior initially took shape. |
Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
ISBN: | 9781501736834 9783110536171 |
DOI: | 10.7591/9781501736834 |
Access: | restricted access |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | Cynthia Kaplan. |