The Years of Hunger: Soviet Agriculture, 1931-1933 (Industrialization of Soviet Russia) (Vol 5)

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
List of Tables......Page 10
Preface to Revised Edition......Page 14
Preface to 2004 Edition......Page 22
1 THE SECOND COLLECTIVISATION DRIVE, 1931......Page 28
2 THE SECOND PHASE OF DEKULAKISATION, 1931......Page 47
(A) The Autumn Sowing, 1930......Page 75
(B) The Spring Sowing......Page 80
(C) The Harvest......Page 92
(A) The Collection Plan......Page 106
(B) The Campaign......Page 118
(A) The Autumn Sowing, 1931......Page 132
(B) The Spring Sowing, 1932......Page 134
(C) The Harvest......Page 150
(A) The Grain Collection Plan for 1932/33......Page 164
(B) First Stage of the Campaign, July–November 1932......Page 169
(i) Resistance......Page 171
(ii) Enforcement......Page 189
(iii) Relaxation......Page 208
(i) The revised grain distribution plan, December 9, 1932......Page 212
(ii) The December collections......Page 214
(iii) The January 1933 collections......Page 224
(iv) The grain collections and the January plenum......Page 228
(i) Famine......Page 231
(ii) The First All-Union Congress of Kolkhoz Shock Workers......Page 234
(iii) The grain collections......Page 236
(iv) Relaxation and repression......Page 238
(v) The grain budget......Page 251
(A) The Autumn Sowing, 1932......Page 258
(B) The Spring Sowing, 1933......Page 260
(C) The Harvest......Page 266
(D) Measuring the Harvest......Page 270
(A) The Law on Compulsory Deliveries......Page 277
(B) The Grain Plan......Page 286
(C) The Collections......Page 289
9 CROPS OTHER THAN GRAIN......Page 295
(A) Food Crops......Page 296
(i) Sugar beet......Page 7
(ii) Potatoes and vegetables......Page 301
(iii) Vegetable oils......Page 310
A note on ‘decentralised collections’ of food......Page 315
(i) Cotton......Page 318
(ii) Flax......Page 325
(A) The Drive for Socialisation, Autumn 1930 to December 1931......Page 328
(B) The Retreat from Socialisation, 1932/33......Page 336
(C) The Kazakh Catastrophe......Page 348
(D) The Outcome......Page 353
11 THE SOVKHOZY......Page 359
12 THE KOLKHOZY......Page 375
(A) State Control of the Kolkhoz......Page 378
(B) The Structure of the Kolkhoz......Page 391
(C) The Kolkhoz Brigade......Page 397
(i) Remuneration from the kolkhoz: the problem of the labour day......Page 402
(ii) Remuneration from the kolkhoz: payment in money......Page 409
(iii) Remuneration from the kolkhoz: payment in kind......Page 411
(iv) The household plot......Page 416
(v) Earnings from otkhodnichestvo......Page 419
(E) Money Income as a Whole......Page 424
13 THE FAMINE IN PERSPECTIVE......Page 427
(i) 1891/92......Page 429
(ii) The double famine of 1918–22......Page 430
(B) The Urban Food Crisis of 1928–33......Page 433
(C) The Famine in Kazakhstan......Page 435
(i) Areas affected by the famine......Page 436
(ii) Deaths from the famine......Page 439
(iii) Excess deaths by region......Page 442
(iv) Excess deaths by social group......Page 444
(vi) Cannibalism......Page 448
(vii) Food assistance......Page 451
(viii) Movement control......Page 453
(ix) Disease......Page 456
(i) Background......Page 458
(ii) Why did agricultural production decline so precipitately?......Page 461
(iii) Coping with the famine crisis......Page 467
Appendix: A Note on the Grain Harvests......Page 469
Tables......Page 475
Glossary of Terms and Abbreviations used in Text......Page 541
Abbreviations of Titles of Books and Periodical Publications, etc., used in Footnotes......Page 548
Bibliography......Page 549
Name Index......Page 560
Subject Index......Page 565