Inventing a Soviet countryside : state power and the transformation of rural Russia, 1917-1929 / James W. Heinzen.
- Heinzen, James W
- Date:
- [2004], ©2004
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Publication/Creation
Pittsburg, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2004], ©2004.
Physical description
x, 297 pages ; 25 cm.
Contents
Introduction. A false start : the birth and early activities of the People's Commissariat of Agriculture, 1917- 1920 -- A struggle for identity : the uncertain transition to the New Economic Policy, 1921-1923 -- "Too many comrades misunderstand the countryside" : a commissariat comes of age, 1923-1926 -- Socialism in one countryside : architects of a new rural Russia, 1923-1926 -- Professional identity and the vision of the modern Soviet countryside : local agricultural specialists, 1927-1929 -- Better red than bread? : purge, collectivization, and the defeat of the People's Commissariat of Agriculture, 1927-1929.
Bibliographic information
Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-290) and index.
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