History of a Soviet Collective Farm

Fedor Belov

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2013
• Topic: Social Sciences
• eBook ISBN:
  9781136281068
• Subtopic: Sociology
• Index: Social Sciences

First published in 1998. This is volume IV of VIII in the international library of sociology based on the sociology of the Soviet Union. The author's account of the life on the collective farm is based mainly on the diaries which he was able to bring with him out of the Soviet Union. The diaries included statistical reports of collective farm operations, but for some of the facts and figures the author has had to rely on his memory.

Index

absenteeism, 111

agitators, 50, 73–76 passim

Agricultural Bank, 32, 45, 46, 85, 171, 174

amalgamation, 158–159, 160 n.4, 164, 228, 232

animal husbandry: livestock farms, 15, 19, 21, 23–24, 83, Chapter VII, 209–210, 227–228, 229–230; workers and wages in, 88–90, 109, 157–158; Three-Year Plan for the Development of, 100, 105 n. 8, 148–153; by individuals, 18, 148–150, 156, 184–186; see also draft power; fodder; compulsory deliveries of animal products; contract system for livestock

artel, 9, 28 n.7

“bachelor house,”7

Banderists, 24, 28 n.19, 123, 197

black market, 59, 118–119, 121, 123, 132, 165–166, 170, 172, 173, 198

board of managers, 17, 22, 33, 37–40, 42, 45, 87, 109, 198, 207

bookkeeping, 45–46; bookkeeper, 91, 106

bribery, 15, 41, 66–67, 118, 124, 143, 155, 165, 170–174, 193, 210, 214, 216–217

brigades, 28 n.14, 41, 44–45, 89, 93, 133–134, 146 n.4, 198, 199

brigadier, 44, 90, 112, 226

building materials, 11, 23, 25, 55, 118, 155, Chapter VIII passim, 199, 201, 210, 226

business manager, 40–41, 106, 197

“capitalist survivals,” 72, 77

Central Statistical Board, 167

chairmen: responsibilities of, 37–40, 61–62, 162, 202, 213; election and appointment of, 25–27, 37, 48, see also “elections”; payment of, 90–91; turnover of, 14, 28 n.13; breaches of labor discipline by, 113–1...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Table of Contents
• Acknowledgments
• About the Author
• A Note on the Text
• I. The History of Our Village to 1947
• II. The Structure of the Kolkhoz
• III. Relations between the Kolkhoz and Other Organizations
• IV. The Planning and Organization of Operations
• V. Labor, Equipment and Draft Power
• VI. Field Work and Crop Deliveries
• VII. The Development of Animal Husbandry on the Kolkhoz
• VIII. Rural Housing Construction and Electrification
• IX. Individual Households
• Conclusion
• Appendix A: Diaries 1948 and 1949
• Appendix B: Bribes to Raion Officials in 1948
• Appendix C: Sowing Plan for Our Kolkhoz, 1947-1949
• Appendix D: Agreement Between the MTS and the Kolkhoz, 1949
• Appendix E: Prices for Agricultural Machinery, 1949
• Appendix F: Some Additional References from the Soviet Press, 1949–1955
• Appendix G: A Note on the September 1953 Decisions
• Table of Equivalents
• Index