Table of Contents: Inventing a Soviet countryside :

Main Author:	Heinzen, James W.
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Pittsburg, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, c2004.
Series:	Pitt Series in Russian and East European studies
Subjects:	Agriculture and state > History. > Soviet Union Agriculture > Economic aspects > Soviet Union > History. Rural development > Soviet Union. Peasantry > History. > Soviet Union Soviet Union > Economic policy > 1917-1928

Table of 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, 1923-1927
Socialism in one countryside : architects of a new rural Russia, 1923-1927
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.