Soviet Grain Procurement Policy during the First 5-Year Plan and Its Results
V.V. Kondrashin
Keywords: хлебозаготовки, коллективизация, аграрная политика, феномен сталинизма, репрессии, индустриализация, экспорт зерна, голод, grain procurement, collectivization, agrarian policy, phenomenon of Stalinism, industrialization, grain exports, famine
Abstract
The paper characterizes reasons, mechanism and consequences of the forced grain procurement in the USSR during the first 5-year plan. Based on the documents from the Russian Presidential Archives and other sources it shows the role played by I.V. Stalin in the grain procurement policy realization; analyzes its regional specifics and other important aspects.
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