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Searching for the Soviet Dream: Prosperity and Disillusionment on the Soviet Seattle Agricultural Commune, 1922–1927
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Agricultural History (2014) 88 (1): 22–44.
Published: 01 January 2014
...Seth Bernstein; Robert Cherny Abstract In 1922 a group of Americans moved from the Pacific Northwest to Soviet Russia to settle an agricultural commune they called Seattle. The Seattle Commune was one among many enterprises founded by foreign sympathizers in the new Soviet republic. All...
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Cooperation in the Romanian Countryside: An Insight into Post-Soviet Agriculture
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Agricultural History (2007) 81 (4): 573–575.
Published: 01 October 2007
...Josip Faričić Cooperation in the Romanian Countryside: An Insight into Post-Soviet Agriculture . Rachel Sabates-Wheeler . Copyright 2007 Agricultural History Society 2007 2007 BookReviews broader meaning of the place, events, people, processes, and feelings in volved and alludes...
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Corn Crusade: Khrushchev’s Farming Revolution in the Post-Stalin Soviet Union
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Agricultural History (2019) 93 (4): 757–759.
Published: 01 October 2019
... Crusade: Khrushchev s Farming Revolution in the Post Stalin Soviet Union. By Aaron Hale-Dorrell. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019. 344 pp., $74.00, hardback, ISBN 978-0-1906-4467-3. A moment of glee comes mid-semester when I teach Soviet history to students at a university surrounded in every...
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Famine Politics in Maoist China and the Soviet Union
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Agricultural History (2015) 89 (4): 590–591.
Published: 01 October 2015
...Judith Shapiro Famine Politics in Maoist China and the Soviet Union . By Felix Wemheuer . New Haven : Yale University Press , 2014 . 344 pp., $65.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-300-19581-1 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2015 2015 Agricultural History Fall explanations...
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Works in Progress: Plans and Realities on Soviet Farms, 1930–1963
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Agricultural History (2016) 90 (1): 129–130.
Published: 01 January 2016
...Mark B. Tauger Works in Progress: Plans and Realities on Soviet Farms, 1930–1963 . By Jenny Leigh Smith . New Haven : Yale University Press , 2014 . 288 pp., $85.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-300-20069-0. © 2016 Agricultural History Society 2016 2016 Book Reviews French history...
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“We Love You People Better than We Like Ourselves”: Canada, the United States, Australia, the Soviet Union, and the International Wheat Pool Movement of the 1920s
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Agricultural History (2018) 92 (3): 404–428.
Published: 01 July 2018
... the decade, the Canadians spearheaded an effort to bring about a transnational pooling program, especially among wheat producers in the United States, Australia, and the Soviet Union. Representatives from these countries recognized the Canadian pool as the ideal model and worked closely...
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Two Years in Russia: 1925–1927, a Joint Venture in a Soviet Village
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Agricultural History (2001) 75 (1): 130–132.
Published: 01 January 2001
...Karen Petrone Two Years in Russia: 1925–1927, a Joint Venture in a Soviet Village . Anne Borders Lynch . Copyright 2001 Agricultural History Society 2001 130 / Agricultural History lems. New aquatic plants and many varieties of rodents disrupted stream flows while weeds and harmful...
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Bread or Iron? Competing Visions of American Aid to Soviet Russia, 1921–1923
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Agricultural History (2023) 97 (2): 245–272.
Published: 01 May 2023
..., distribution networks, and roles of relief workers, among others, became points of discussion and an open confrontation ensued among different organizations. This article analyzes competing visions of US famine relief to Soviet Russia during the devastating Volga famine of 1921–23. Unofficially presided over...
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Without Anger and Partiality”: Political Shelter in the History of Atomic Agriculture
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Agricultural History (2024) 98 (4): 518–540.
Published: 01 November 2024
...Jacob Darwin Hamblin Abstract This article explores atomic agriculture through the lens of political shelter, focusing on examples from the United States, the Soviet Union, and the International Atomic Energy Agency. Enthusiasm for atomic energy techniques, especially in the 1950s and early 1960s...
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Federal Reclamation and the American West in the Twentieth Century
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Agricultural History (2003) 77 (3): 391–419.
Published: 01 July 2003
... time it continued to push the family farm. The bureau entered a third phase of life after World War II, when the power it generated became identified with winning the Cold War against the Soviet Union and agribusiness eclipsed the family farm in the West. Finally, once big dams began to look too...
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Cold War Competition and Food Production in China, 1957–1962
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Agricultural History (2009) 83 (1): 51–78.
Published: 01 January 2009
...Yixin Chen Abstract This article examines how Mao’s grand strategy for Cold War competition inflicted a catastrophic agricultural failure in China and victimized tens of millions of Chinese peasants. It argues that Khrushchev’s 1957 boast about the Soviet Union surpassing the United States in key...
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From Bread to Cake: A Global History of Pacific Northwest Wheat during the Cold War
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Agricultural History (2022) 96 (3): 417–443.
Published: 01 August 2022
... on telling how the United States turned to wheat exports in the “developing world” as a tool and weapon to achieve US hegemony and negate the influence of the Soviet Union. This article argues that the Pacific Northwest wheat industry's relationship with wheat consumers and importers in Japan shifts the Cold...
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Black Earth, White Bread: A Technopolitical History of Russian Agriculture and Food
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Agricultural History (2023) 97 (4): 722–724.
Published: 01 November 2023
... of agriculture and food production in Russia over the last hundred years, a period that includes Soviet rule (1917–91). Arguing that “politics and technologies together drive change in food systems,” Wengle, a political scientist, uses the framework of “technopolitics” to analyze this history (8). She defines...
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Agricultural History Talks to Mark Tauger
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Agricultural History (2011) 85 (3): 345–348.
Published: 01 July 2011
... and, because agriculture was important in those areas, I decided to study Soviet agriculture and collectivization. That decision led to my dissertation Commune to Kolkhoz about the ways collectivization changed or perpetuated traditional Russian farming methods. In writing that study I encountered many...
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Tasting French Terroir: The History of an Idea
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Agricultural History (2016) 90 (1): 127–129.
Published: 01 January 2016
... imbricated into 128 2016 Book Reviews French history that, despite the wishes of many non-French citizens, it may not be transferable. charles c. ludington North Carolina State University Works in Progress: Plans and Realities on Soviet Farms, 1930 1963. By Jenny leigh Smith. new Haven: yale university Press...
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Pipe Dreams: Water and Empire in Central Asia’s Aral Sea Basin
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Agricultural History (2021) 95 (2): 402–404.
Published: 01 April 2021
... Reviews 403 as the basis for her narrative in Pipe Dreams. Examining sources from archives in the Russian Federation, the United States, and several countries throughout Central Asia, the author highlights the environmental catastrophe that resulted from both Tsarist and Soviet policy in the region...
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The Kingdom of Rye: A Brief History of Russian Food
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Agricultural History (2024) 98 (4): 723–725.
Published: 01 November 2024
... consists of three thematic chapters and a conclusion: “The Land and its Flavors,” “Hardship and Hunger,” “Hospitality and Excess,” and “Coda: Post-Soviet Russia.” Each beautifully written chapter deftly provides fascinating insights into Russian food culture. Given the harshness of the climate...
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The Yellow River: The Problem of Water in Modern China
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Agricultural History (2016) 90 (1): 130–132.
Published: 01 January 2016
... ga elina, nikolai Krementsov, david Joravsky, and others have shown that many scientists, plant breeders, and peasants successfully ignored lysenko. Smith criticizes earlier scholarship for a cold War bias that viewed Soviet agriculture as very different from capitalist agriculture and as a failure...
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Nazi Hunger Politics: A History of Food in the Third Reich
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Agricultural History (2016) 90 (4): 554–555.
Published: 01 October 2016
... rural exodus) and reinforced the leadership s intention to conquer land in the east. Key chapters examine the regime s hunger plan, which resulted in the starvation of between four and seven million Soviets. gerhard s contribution to scholarship on the plan is her attention to its principle author...
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Histories of Global Wine
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Agricultural History (2024) 98 (2): 270–276.
Published: 01 May 2024
... institutions along with other documents and statistical data. Stephen Bittner is a specialist in Soviet history, and Whites and Reds extends across periods of Russian and Soviet history that are usually treated as separate. This is a great strength of the book. Bittner has uncovered a diverse range...
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