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Agriculture in the Soviet Union was mostly collectivized, with some limited cultivation of private plots. It is often viewed as one of the more inefficient...

respectively in 1991. Agriculture was the predominant occupation in the Soviet Union before the massive industrialization under Soviet general secretary Joseph...

The Soviet Union introduced forced collectivization (Russian: Коллективизация) of its agricultural sector between 1928 and 1940 during the ascension of...

Following the breakup of the Soviet Union in 1991, large collective and state farms – the backbone of Soviet agriculture – had to contend with the sudden...

the agricultural workforce. Estimates conclude that 5.7 to 8.7 million people died from starvation across the Soviet Union. During this period Soviet leader...

7 to perhaps 7.0 million people in the Soviet famine of 1932–1933 and Soviet collectivization of agriculture are included among the victims of repression...

for Agriculture, abbreviated as Narkomzem was established in the RSFSR following the October Revolution. When the RSFSR joined the other Soviet republics...

legacy remained largely discredited among the Soviet intelligentsia. Between 1960 and 1970, Soviet agriculture output increased by 3% annually. Industry also...

money tax, with Soviet state grain requisitions accomplished via buying and selling. Although the return to the market system in agriculture was ideologically...

[lɪˈsɛnkiu̯ʃtʃɪnɐ]) was a political campaign led by Soviet biologist Trofim Lysenko against genetics and science-based agriculture in the mid-20th century, rejecting natural...

improve the Soviet Union's domestic policy. The policies were centered around rapid industrialization and the collectivization of agriculture. Stalin desired...

in the Soviet Union. His domestic policies, aimed at bettering the lives of ordinary citizens, were often ineffective, especially in agriculture. Hoping...

support Lysenko's pseudoscience. In a 1955 speech, he argued that Soviet agriculture needed a shot in the arm and that it was silly to keep blaming low...

enemies while transforming Soviet society with central planning, in particular through the forced collectivization of agriculture and rapid development of...

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922...

most disturbed by Soviet agricultural ambitions. One demographic retrojection suggests a figure of 2.5 million famine deaths for Soviet Ukraine and Kuban...

Stephen (2009). The Industrialisation of Soviet Russia Volume 5: The Years of Hunger: Soviet Agriculture 1931–1933. Palgrave Macmillan UK. ISBN 978-0-230-27397-9...

components of the socialized farm sector that began to emerge in Soviet agriculture after the October Revolution of 1917, as an antithesis both to the...

human toll of collectivisation of agriculture in the Soviet Union, especially in Ukraine,[citation needed] Soviet planners still believed in the effectiveness...

Digest of the Soviet Press, 2, 9, pp.11-14, gives a full translation of the article in Pravda, 19 Feb. 1950, pp.4-5. See also agriculture commissar Andreyev's...