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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Table of Contents:
  • 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