Was Chayanov's Concept of Peasant Agriculture Under the Soviet Rule Realistic? The Emerging of the Kulturniki in Answer to the Litsom K Derevne Policy

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ID4969684
AuthorsS Merl (corresponding author), Merl
Year2022
Volume7
Issue2
Pages6-37
Publication date2022-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueRussian Peasant Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2500-1809 • E-ISSN: 2949-2564
PublisherRussian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (PUBLISHER • RU)
DOI10.22394/2500-1809-2022-7-2-6-37
OpenAlexW4296564593
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited5

With the 100 th anniversary of the New Economic Policy (NEP), the agricultural program Litsom k derevne also needs attention. There is hardly any special research on it in Russia. I looked in vain for any assessments in the recent Russian historiography (see, e.g.: Rossiiskie 2021: 241-282). When studying the NEP and peasantry under Stalin, I examined the Litsom k derevne policy and its potential decades ago (see: In close connection with Viktor Danilov, Markus Wehner studied this policy (1998). His book based on the archives and, considers in detail the fight in the Party exploiting agricultural policy and the danger of the capitalist restoration without any real concern or interest in agriculture. He examines the positions of the People's Commissariat of Agriculture of the RSFSR (Narkomzem) of the agricultural experts involved in policy formulation and the position of the 'industrialization lobby', which allows to assess to what extent Chayanov and his school were engaged in designing the Litsom k derevne program and how they estimated the feasibility of this policy under the Party's political pressure and changes in the industrialization strategy

Agricultural policy · Agriculture · Archaeology · Historiography · Industrialisation · Peasant · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Agricultural Development and Policies · History · Law

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