Today he is more than Commissar of Agriculture, his job in 1929-33. Promotion has carried him to the Soviet agricultural top: Chief of the Agricultural Department of the All-Union Communist Party ...

ostensibly to discuss Soviet agriculture. In fact, a main topic, acknowledged or not, will be the Mao-Khrushchev rift and what to do about it. But the agricultural problem on the agenda is more ...

In the meantime, the colossal collapse of Soviet agriculture in the early 1990s will be responsible for a net sequestration of 70 Tg carbon over the coming decades. Thus it seems that the Soviet ...

When Stalin takes power, Soviet agriculture is still dominated by small landowners and blighted by famines and inefficiency. Stalin modernises agriculture by instigating collectivisation – the ...