Gleanings

Abstract

The peasant and the commisar.An analysis of Russian agricultural policy:For 32years Russia has been attempting to convert agriculture.into an industry on the ame lines as the heavy indusries.In the plan.'control of all farm production was to be centered in Moscow.Workers were to be regimented in the same way as factory hands and miners.The experiment has not succeeded even to the small extent achived in other industries. According to the "Soviet Encyclopaedia"' Lenin.in 1949,wanted to encourage the small farmers to join co-operatives,i/e.groups in farmers help each other by lending implements,machinery and (sometimes)workers.Most small farmers had no opjection to this scheme:it helped them by opening up marketing co-operatives as well.Afterwards.if the plan worked.they were to be plunged into collectivesation (i.e.communisationn in which the State owns all implemen- ts,equipment and cattle).This was known as "Lemin's Co-oprative Plan".Its ultimate object.however,was not "co-operation" as such.but the complete submerging of agriculture into the Soviet economic plan.Large landowners had been liquidated.the Kulaks(independent farm owners)were necessary for the time.because of their experien - ce .Peasants who formed the major part of the producing farmers.had to be encouraged.

DOI

https://doi.org/10.29321/MAJ.10.194990

Pages

493 - 494

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© The Author(s), 2026. Published by Madras Agricultural Students' Union in Madras Agricultural Journal (MAJ). This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited by the user.

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