Industrialization of Belarusian agriculture in 1921–1939: transformation of content
Abstract
The article is devoted to the problems of Soviet modernization of the Belarusian village in 1921–1939. The research is based on the systematic and functional approaches which allow to clarify the role of tradition as a determinant of the direction and special character of the transformations and preserving their influence in the society during the period of its transformation. The article notes the heterogeneity of the concepts of «industrialization» and «industrialization of agriculture» as well as their forms and directions in the BSSR during the interwar period. It is concluded that the first stage (in 1924–1928) industrialization of agriculture was carried out on the basis of the interaction of individual and collective farms as manufacturers, when the purchase, sale and processing of agricultural products were organized through cooperative forms. At that
time a purchase, marketing and processing of agricultural products were organized through cooperative forms with peasant individual farms. Since 1929 the focus is shifted from modernization to the main processes of agricultural mechanization of which tractorization was the foundation. During 1929–1939 the establishment of machine-and-tractor stations didn’t predetermine the significant mechanization of agricultural production in the Byelorussian SSR but facilitated the dissemination of practices, training and created a reserve for future growth of own agricultural machinery.
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