Climate Dependence and Food Problems in Russia, 1900-1990: The Interaction of Climate and Agricultural Policy and Their Effect on Food ProblemsCentral European University Press, 2005 M01 1 - 366 páginas Between 1900 and 1990, there were several periods of grain and other food shortages in Russia and the former Soviet Union, some of which reached disaster proportions resulting in mass famine and death on an unprecedented scale. New stocks of information not previously accessible as well as traditional official sources have been used to explore the extent to which policy and vagaries in climate conspired to affect agricultral yields. |
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23 The Stalin era 19291953 | 23 |
The postwar recovery period 19451954 | 155 |
62 Weather variations and agricultural production | 161 |
63 Food problems | 165 |
64 Summary | 169 |
The virgin lands campaign 19551964 | 171 |
72 Weather variations and agricultural production | 193 |
73 Food problems | 207 |
74 Summary | 217 |
24 The postStalin period after 1953 | 25 |
25 Summary | 29 |
The prerevolutionary period 19001916 | 31 |
32 Weather variations and agricultural production | 44 |
33 Food problems | 53 |
34 Summary | 66 |
The postrevolutionary period 19171928 | 69 |
42 Weather variations and agricultural production | 80 |
43 Food problems | 89 |
44 Summary | 107 |
The collectivization of Soviet agriculture 19291940 | 109 |
52 Weather variations and agricultural production | 123 |
53 Food problems | 135 |
54 Summary | 152 |
The period of agricultural intensification 19651975 | 219 |
82 Weather variations and agricultural production | 239 |
83 Food problems | 252 |
84 Summary | 265 |
The period of agricultural stagnation 19761990 | 267 |
92 Weather variations and agricultural production | 288 |
93 Food problems | 307 |
94 Summary | 330 |
Conclusion | 335 |
Glossary | 341 |
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Términos y frases comunes
50 percent affected by drought agricultural production amount of grain autumn average Black Earth region capita cattle centners per hectare Central Black Earth cereal yields collectivization crop area crop failure drought estimate European Russia feed grain Figure fodder food consumption food crisis food problems food shortages food situation grain harvest grain procurement grain production growth hectares ibid increase Izvestia Kazakhstan Khrushchev kilograms kolkhozes livestock livestock sector Low Volga mass famine meat production Middle Volga milk million hectares million tons millions of tons Moscow North Caucasus oblast official statistics period poor harvest population Pravda pre-war provinces Radio Liberty reached result RSFSR rubles Russian Empire Russian Federation Sovetskaya Rossia Soviet agriculture Soviet authorities Soviet statistics Soviet Union sovkhozes spring steppe Table tion Ukraine Urals USSR virgin lands virgin lands campaign Volga basin weather conditions Western experts Western Siberia wheat Wheatcroft and Davies winter zone
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