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Climate Dependence and Food Problems in Russia, 1900-1990

N. M. Dronin
Climate Dependence and Food Problems in Russia, 1900-1990 by N. M. Dronin PDF

Author : N. M. Dronin
Publisher : Central European University Press
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 22,52 MB
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9789637326103

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This book explores the interconnections between climate, policy and agriculture in Russia and the former Soviet Union between 1900 and 1990. During this period there were several periods of grain and other food shortages some of which reached disaster proportions resulting in mass famine and death on an unprecedented scale. traditional official and other sources have been used to explore the extent to which policy and vagaries in climate conspired to affect agricultural yeilds. Were the leaders (Stalin, Krushchev, Brezhnev and Gorbachev) policies sound in theory but failed in practice because of unpredictable weather? How did the Soviet peasants react to these changes? What impact did Soviet agriculture have on the overall economy of the country? These are all questions that are taken into account in this book. various political eras. In each the policy of the central government is discussed followed by the climate vagaries during that period. Crop yeilds are then analysed in the light of policy and climate. these factors from such a wide range of sources in the last century.