PLANNING OF AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION AND PROCUREMENT IN KOLKHOZES AND SOVKHOZES IN WESTERN SIBERIA IN THE SECOND HALF OF THE 1960S – FIRST HALF OF THE 1980S
D.S. Orlov
Keywords: agriculture, agricultural policy, kolkhozes, sovkhozes, agricultural planning, procurement, Western Siberia
Abstract
The paper analyzes understudied problems of agrarian and economic history of the USSR in the second half of the 1960s – first half of the 1980s, connected with the state’s efforts to boost production in the kolkhozes and sovkhozes by limiting regulatory dictate in the sphere of agricultural production and procurement planning. Using the data on Western Siberia the author proves that in the second half of the 1960s the mechanisms of economical incentives led to increase of agricultural production while the growing administrative pressure on farms in the early 1970s made for the low rate of future agricultural growth.
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