Their purpose is to produce food; and from this standpoint Soviet agriculture leaves much to be desired. The acreage under cultivation is now 340,000,000 acres, as against the 355,000,000 acres which ...

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 ...

Trofim Denisovich Lysenko, dictator of Soviet geneticists and symbol of Stalin’s attitude toward science, was kicked out of the presidency of the Lenin All-Union Academy of Agricultural Sciences.

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 ...