Private Agriculture in the Soviet Union

First published in 1989. Perestroika, it was widely believed, must succeed in agriculture before permanent change could be affected elsewhere in the Soviet economy. But Soviet agriculture had so far remained stubbornly inefficient and resistant to change. In this book Stefan Hedlund investigates the reasons for this state of affairs.

The author gives an account of the emergence, development and performance of private agriculture in the Soviet Union. In particular he describes the essentials...