Author: Pryor, Frederic L.
Title: The Red and the Green: The Rise and Fall of Collectivised Agriculture in Marxist Regimes
Description: Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1992. orig. cloth. 24x16cm, xvi, 550 pp. Textual maps,tables,diagrams. Minor rubbing. Several light cover spots. VG. dustwrapper ¶ Contents: Introduction; An Overview of the Major Problems and Themes; The Marxist Theory of Agricultural Development and Collectivization; Land Reforms and Collectivization; Agrarian Reforms; The Establishment of State and collective Farms; Structural Elements; Horizontal and Vertical Integration of Agriculture; The Internal Organization of the Farms; Policies and Performance; Selected Agricultural Policies; Agricultural Performance; Reforms and the Future; When Is Collectivization Reversible?; Reforms of Agriculture: Sectoral Issues; Some Broad Issues of Agricultural Reform; Appendixes: Classification of Marxist Regimes; Tests of the Marxist Theory of Agricultural Development; The Vertical Structure of Agriculture in Market Economies; Managerial Decision-Making on State and Collective Farms; The Terms of Trade between Agriculture and Other Sectors;Four Short Case Studies of Agricultural Reform; Labor Supply and Compensation on Collective Farms: A Model.

Keywords: Agricultural Collectives, Communism, Communist, Collectivization, Collective, Agriculture, Agrarian Reform, Farming Policy, Political History