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For years we spoke of agriculture as the ‘Achilles’ heel’ of the Soviet economy, and wry jokes were current in the Soviet Union itself about the apparent hopelessness of the agricultural situation. Very considerable advances have been made in the past ten years, since Khrushchev fell. Can we now say that a decisive upturn has occurred, with a real take-off into sustained growth (to borrow a phrase from another context)? Are the gains real, are the official claims greatly exaggerated, and has the cost of the achievements been excessive? To these questions I hope this chapter will provide some sort of answer.
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L. I. Brezhnev, Voprosy agrarnoi politiki KPSS i osvoenie tselinnykh zemel’ Kazakhstana (Moscow, 1974 ) p. 307.
The contrast was pointed out by R. W. Campbell in his Soviet-type Economies (London, 1974) p. 75, and it deserves closer analysis.
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Nove, A. (1978). Agriculture. In: Brown, A., Kaser, M. (eds) The Soviet Union since the Fall of Khrushchev. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-15847-8_1
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