Socialist Modernization of Agriculture: Projects and Implementation

Abstract

This article reconstructs the models of the socialist modernization of agriculture developed at the end of the 1920s and start of the 1930s: collective-farm-cooperative, state-farm-collective-farm, and agrarian-industrial. The characteristic of the agrarian system formed in the course of mass collectivization, which radically differs from the theoretical constructions accepted for implementation, is given. The grounds and content of the organizational and economic restructuring of the agrarian sector of the economy in the second half of the 1950s are analyzed. The representation developed in the mid-1960s by V.G. Venger of the project of reforming socialist agriculture is carried out and the factors why it was not implemented are determined.