A SHOCK THERAPY AT IMPLEMENTATION OF AN AGRARIAN REFORM

Issue № 11, 2015, article № 5, pages 31-44

Section: Historical sketches

Language: Russian

Original language title: ШОКОВАЯ ТЕРАПИЯ ПРИ ОСУЩЕСТВЛЕНИИ АГРАРНОЙ РЕФОРМЫ

Keywords: AGRARIAN REFORM, CRIMINAL MARKET, LIQUIDATION OF THE LARGE ENTERPRISES, FARMING, DECLINE IN PRODUCTION, UNCONTROLLABLE GROWTH OF IMPORT, DECLINE IN LIVING STANDARDS, ACCOUNTS PAYABLE, NEW AGRARIAN POLICY

Abstract: In the late eighties the agrarian sphere needed social and economic and state and legal changes. The Soviet government made decisions on a phased transition to a new economic mechanism, improvement of a state system. However these measures didn't give the expected results. The liberals who came to the power began reforms. Peasants hoped that reforms will allow eliminating the reasons constraining production efficiency of agricultural production but instead of being exempted from paradoxes of centralization, to go on the way of high-quality improvement of the economic relations, the problem was transferred to the political plane. For the first 10 years of reforms economic circulation was left by 33 million hectares of a cultivated area. Production of agricultural production was quickly reduced (7 and more percent a year). If on average in a year in 1986-1990 in Russia 104.3 million t were made. grains, in 1996-2000 - 65.1 million t. The share of production, unsafe for consumption, increased, the demographic situation worsened. Unfortunately in disorder of branch the considerable role was played by scientists-economists of the Russian agricultural academy, declaring that if the western farmers work better, than collective farms and state farms, their form of managing more effective means, without pondering upon that their efficiency depends on an equivalent exchange between the village and the city, on the huge help of the state, on scanty rates on the credits, on use of hi-tech equipment, etc.

Authors: Miloserdov Vladimir Vasilevich