Аuthor: V. P. MOTREVICH, doctor of historical sciences, professor, head of department,
Ural State Agricultural University (42 K. Libknehta Str., 620075, Ekaterinburg; tel: +7 (912) 283-04-14; e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)
Abstract: Author examines the problem of the extent and dynamics of agricultural production in the republics and regions of the Ural region in the postwar years, using archival data on gross output of agriculture in terms of value. It is shown that the first postwar years, in addition to 1946, when there was severe drought, marked by a rapid increase in agricultural production. The recovery of the agricultural sector in all the republics and regions of the Urals were approximately the same, as evidenced by the dynamics of the gross output of industry at national and regional context. It is shown that among the various categories of farms fastest agricultural production was restored in the collective farms. During the years of the fourth five-year plan the volume produced in production has doubled. The first post-war years were marked by considerable positive results in the development of agriculture; by 1950 it was largely restored. However, in the country were not resolved fundamental questions of collective and state farm construction, taxation and wage in the first place. Farmers still had to work in a team only for the right to use adjoining land, the products of which were barely big enough not to die from hunger. The village is practically not developed social infrastructure, and farmers using the passport system were attached to the places of residence. Data on gross output of agriculture in the Urals in value terms in the 1950s, it was shown that a high rate of agriculture in the region has evolved during the years of the sixth five-year plan, low — in the fifth. The dynamics of agricultural production in the republics and regions of the Ural region, estimates of the contribution of each of them in the food balance sheets of the country during the study period. The analysis of the results of agricultural production on certain categories of farms, conclusions is drawn about the change in their role in those years. Author’s calculations show that in the late 1950s, per capita rural population agricultural sector in the Urals produced significantly more agricultural products in value terms, than the average for the USSR and the RSFSR.
Keywords: gross production, agriculture, Ural, cost indicators, statistics, comparable rates, state agricultural enterprises, collective farms, private farms of farmers, farm workers and employees, the management of individual farmers.
