Reasons and Alternatives for Reorganization of the Machine and Tractor Stations in 1958
S.N. Andreenkov
Keywords: машинно-тракторные станции, колхозы, реорганизация МТС, аграрная политика, Н.С. Хрущев, сельское хозяйство, machine and tractor stations, kolkhozes, reorganization of MTS, agrarian policy, N.S. Khrushchev, agriculture
Abstract
The paper analyzes some important problems of agrarian and economic history of the USSR in the 1950s when the government took measures to raise mechanization level of agricultural industry. The author studied governmental measures aimed at development of MTS; analyzed the projects of reforms proposed in the middle of 1950s; tried to determine reasons that led to liquidation of MTS in the late 1950s. The article contains different views of researchers on the reasons of MTS reforms. For the first time in historiography the author analyzes the alternative project of this reform that was denied for political reasons.
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