COLLECTIVIZATION OF AGRICULTURE AS AN INSTRUMENT OF MODERNIZATION
S.A. Yesikov
Keywords: крестьянское хозяйство, нэп, кризис хлебозаготовок, сельская кооперация, альтернативы социально-экономического развития, коллективизация, модернизация, peasant economy, NEP, crisis of grain procurement, agricultural cooperation, alternatives to the socioeconomic development, collectivization, modernization
Abstract
The paper considers social and economic prerequisites of mass collectivization. The author believes that NEP didn’t create a mechanism of sustainable development of agriculture. By the late 1920s the cultivated areas didn’t reach the level of the pre-war period. Is is concluded that under the concrete historical circumstances at the turn of 1920s and 1930s neither Bukharin’s nor Chayanov’s and Kondratyev’s alternatives to the Stalin’s forced collectivization had any real chances to be implemented.
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