Russian Peasant Organisation: A Study of Commune and Gathering 1925?1930 (Cambridge Russian, Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies, Series Number 3)
Cambridge University Press, 10/13/2008
EAN 9780521077750, ISBN10: 0521077753
Paperback, 264 pages, 21.6 x 14 x 1.7 cm
Language: English
Most Russian peasants in the mid-1920s held their land as members of a commune (or mir), the old Russian form of land-holding. The revolution had brought a revival in the fortunes of the institution. This was not a welcome development to the Bolsheviks and the Soviet government unsuccessfully attempted to supplant the commune as the focus of rural affairs, by instituting the rural Soviets. The debate on land-holding in the mid-twenties bore fruit only in encouraging peasants to modify the worst inefficiencies of strip farming.
Part I. The Commune
Its function and organisation in its agricultural perspective
1. Land holding in European Russia in the 1920s
2. Function and organisation
Part II. The Commune and Soviet Society
3. The Commune and the Soviet network
4. Collectivisation and the Commune.