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The role of the agricultural administration from the mid-1980s until the death of Stalin was often difficult to fulfil but was relatively easy to grasp. Its main task was to exercise close control over the countryside in order to guarantee supplies of food and raw materials vital to the success of the industrialisation drive. Production sometimes suffered, but control was the order of the day. The MTS, the large agricultural bureaucracy, the complicated procurement system, the extreme centralisation of agricultural planning and procurement and the often arbitrary nature of administrative intervention were all geared towards one goal — control.
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Leo Gruliow (ed.), Current Soviet Policies, (New York, 1956) p. 58.
E. Strauss, Soviet Agriculture in Perspective, (London, 1969) p. 221.
P. Baranov, in VE, no. 8 (1957) pp. 63–71, came out strongly for the use of chemicals to increase yields in agriculture and refuted the argument that fertilisers on large areas sown to cereals were uneconomic.
I. D. Laptev, VE, no. 9 (1958) pp. 93–6. This was an account of what he had said at a conference of social scientists in June 1958. N. Anisimov, Kommunist, no. 18 (1959) pp. 10–19, stated that the anti-party group had opposed the virgin land programme on the grounds that it represented extensive agriculture.
I. D. Laptev, VE, no. 9 (1958) pp. 93–6. This was an account of what he had said at a conference of social scientists in June 1958. N. Anisimov, Kommunist, no. 18 (1959) pp. 10–19, stated that the anti-party group had opposed the virgin land programme on the grounds that it represented extensive agriculture.
V. F. Mashenkov, Ispolzovanie trudovykh resursov selskoi mestnosti, (Moscow, 1965) p. 111.
Robert S. McNamara, The Essence of Security, (London, 1968).
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McCauley, M. (1976). From the Fall of Malenkov to the Fall of Khrushchev, 1955–64. In: Khrushchev and the Development of Soviet Agriculture. Studies in Russian and East European History. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-03059-0_5
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