Description: What really caused the failure of the Soviet Union s ambitious plans to modernize and industrialize its agricultural system?"
Review Quotes: "Smith's splendid, original and searching history of Soviet agriculture from collectivization to 1963 is the first to challenge and transcend cold-war stereotypes. Her inspired idea of measuring the wildly varied results of Soviet agricultural policy against both the magnitude of social and geographical obstacles it confronted and the manifold failures of Western industrial agriculture provides the basis for a powerful and novel re-assessment. It is an invitation to an essential and bracing, evidence-based debate."--James C. Scott, Yale University--James C. Scott (4/22/2014 12:00:00 AM)