A Survey of Soviet Russian Agriculture 1951 by Lazar Volin - 1951

Original 'A Survey of Soviet Russian Agriculture' August 1951 by Lazar Volin Regional Specialist, Office of Foreign Agricultural Relations, Agriculture 5 Monograph US Department of Agriculture . This book is referenced often when data is needed for scholarly work or when observing effects and results of a socialist agriculture economy. See http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/70942/lazar-volin/the-turn-of-the-screw-in-soviet-agriculture
With 74 Charts and Tables. With 14 Maps. 6 X 9 Tall with 194 pages

Condition: Very Good, penciled name on front cover, tan/yellow light covers, some yellowing of pages from age, a few dog ear pages.
I. Natural environment 1 The land 1 Climate 5
II. Agricultural policy and land tenure 10 Precollective period 10 Collectivization of agriculture 12
III. The farm system 21 Collective farms (kolkhozy) 21 Organizational structure 21 Labor and management 27 Migration from kolkhozy 35 Distribution of income and incentives 36 Number and size 48 Mechanization and machine-tractor stations 55 Organizational structure 57 Management and personnel 59 Operation 61 Wartime damage 68 Rural electrification __ 69 State farms (sovkhozy) 69 Individual farms 80
IV. Machinery of government supervision 84
V. Farm practices — 87 Crop rotation and soil conservation 88 Use of improved seed 93 Use of fertilizers 93 Farm practices, centralized planning, and research 96
VI. Land utilization 102
VII. Crop pattern 108 Grains 108 Wheat 108 Rye 119 Oats 122 Barley 124 Corn (Maize) 125 Other grains 126 Nongrain crops 127 Potatoes 127 Sugar beets 129 Sunflower seed 132 Cotton 133 Flax 145 Hemp 147 Tobacco 148 Miscellaneous crops 149 VIII. Livestock.. 152 IX. Distribution and consumption of agricultural products 168
X. Foreign trade 177
XI. World War II and postwar reconstruction program 184
List of official Russian statistical publications cited, with the name of the issuing agency 187
Index 189