Socialist agriculture in transition : organizational response to failing performance /: organizational response to failing performance. (2019)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Josef C. Brada and Karl-Eugen Wadekin.
• Other Names: Brada, Josef C, 1942-; Wädekin, Karl Eugen
• Contents: Introduction -- The Normless Link: A New Era in Socialist Agriculture? -- Labor Incentives in Soviet Kolkhozy -- Contract Brigades and Normless Teams in Soviet Agriculture -- The Zveno and Collective Contracts: The End of Soviet Collectivization? -- The Contract Brigades: Towards a Neo-collectivism in Soviet Agriculture? -- Agrarian Structures and Policies in the USSR, China, and Hungary: A Comparative View -- Problems of Soviet Agriculture -- Did the Kolkhoz System Really Fulfill the Initial Aims of the Party in the 1930s? -- Food Consumption Patterns in the Soviet Union -- The Experiments in Georgia, 1974-1984: Quest for a New Organization in the Soviet Agricultural System -- The Role of Agriculture in the Polish Economic Crisis and Recovery -- An Overview of the Role of Agriculture in the Polish Economic Crisis -- Prospects for Polish Agriculture in the 1980s -- Polish Agriculture and Martial Law, or What Happened to the Smychka? -- The Development Strategy of Agriculture in Poland1 -- Planning the Development of Agriculture Under the Conditions of Polish Economic Reform -- Hungarian Agriculture: Evolving to Maintain Progress? -- Hungarian Agriculture in the 1970s and 1980s -- Promotion of Efficiency in the Agriculture of the German Democratic Republic -- The Reform of Agricultural Prices in the German Democratic Republic -- Energy Consumption in the GDR's Agriculture -- Yugoslavia: The Agrarian Sector in a Labor-Managed Economy -- Recent Agricultural Policy in Yugoslavia: A Return to the Private Sector? -- Price Policy and Price Formation in the Yugoslav Agro-Food Sector -- Agricultural Policies and Reform in China and Vietnam -- The New Economic Policy in the Chinese Countryside -- Specific Aspects of the Collectivization of Wet-Rice Cultivation: Vietnamese Experience -- Allocating Resources to Promote Efficiency and Structural Change in Agriculture -- Comparative Performance of Agricultural Output, Inputs, and Productivity in Eastern Europe, 1965–83 -- Inter-regional and Inter-organizational Differences in Agricultural Efficiency in Czechoslovakia -- The USSR: The Livestock Feed Issue -- Rural Infrastructure in the Soviet Union: Roads and Other Priorities -- International Trade and the Agrarian Sector -- Hungary as a Trade Partner for Socialist and Market Economies -- Current Issues in East-West Trade Relations -- Changing Perspectives in East-West Agriculture Trade: United States-Soviet Relations, 1972–84 -- Assessing the Significance of the Soviet Market for United States Agricultural Exports -- East European Agricultural Trade Policy
• Publisher Details: Place of publication not identified : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2019
• Extent: 1 online resource (445 pages)
• Subjects: 338.1/0947; Agriculture -- Economic aspects -- Europe, Eastern; Agriculture -- Economic aspects -- Communist countries; Agriculture and state -- Communist countries; Communism and agriculture; Agriculture and state; Agriculture -- Economic aspects; Communism and agriculture; Agrarpolitik; Landwirtschaft; Aufsatzsammlung; Landwirtschaft; Agrarpolitik; Aufsatzsammlung; Communist countries; Eastern Europe; Ostblock; Sozialistische Staaten; Ostblock; Sozialistische Staaten; Aufsatzsammlung
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781000312010; 1000312011
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.