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| Title | The New phase in the Soviet Union |
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| Publisher | Workers Library Publishers |
| Date | 1931 |
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| Language | English |
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| Original Item Extent | 55, [1] pages; 22 cm |
| Original Item Location | DK267.M6242 |
| Original Item URL | http://library.uh.edu/record=b8321015~S5 |
| Original Collection | Socialist and Communist Pamphlets |
| Digital Collection | Socialist and Communist Pamphlets |
| Digital Collection URL | http://digital.lib.uh.edu/collection/scpamp |
| Repository | Special Collections, University of Houston Libraries |
| Repository URL | http://libraries.uh.edu/branches/special-collections |
| Use and Reproduction | In Copyright |
| File Name | index.cpd |
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| Transcript | methods of mass collectivisation, one reorganising the petty peasant farms of the best means of on the foundations of machine production and large-scale collective agriculture. However, in view of the lack of tractors and larger agricultural machines, tens of thousands of the newly-erected collective farms are vitally interested in the organisation of machine and horse depots. By bringing about a definite centralisation of the means of production they provide a number of the advantages of collective farming. In many districts we cannot postpone mass collectivisation until tractors have arrived. In such cases machine and horse depots are a transitional step to the organisation of collective farms on the basis of tractors, combines and other higher-grade agricultural machinery. It is proposed this spring to organise over 7,000 machine and horse depots throughout the U.S.S.R. Particularly important in the development of socialist agriculture is the success of our efforts to build up soviet farms, i.e., large- scale state agricultural undertakings. In the course of 1929, 55 new large soviet farms were created, under the control of the Grain trust, in which 1,950,000 hectares were tilled. This year 125 soviet estates ,covering a tilled area of not less than 4,000,000 hectares, will be in existenre. The whole of the ploughing will be carried out by tractors (10,000), while at least two-thirds of the harvesting will be carried out by 1,550 combines. You will see that these soviet estates are of a giant size, unprecedented throughout the world. Even in America there are no such large-scale agricultural undertakings as our large soviet estates. This year their output will be 830,000 tons, while next year their output will be over 3,000,000 tons of marketable grain. This means that the vast plan for the building of new soviet farms laid down in the five years' programme will by the third year have already been carried out nearly 200 per cent. We do not hide the fact that in 1929, when we were casting up accounts for the year, we discovered considerable defects in the first year's work on the new soviet farms. The average harvest proved to be lower than was anticipated. This is to be explained by the unfavourable climatic conditions of this year and the predominance of virgin soil in the new soviet estates; furthermore, it should be borne in mind that we have to build the new soviet farms, as a rule, in districts which are constantly in peril of drought, and this is bound to have an effect on the harvest. This obliges us to take a number of steps to raise the output in the soviet farms. But individual defects cannot arrest the general movement towards the organisation of large-scale socialist agriculture. The experience of one of the most extensive new Soviet farms,—the "Gigant" (Giant), in the Northern Caucasus—shows what tremendous potentialities there are in undertakings of this 15 |