R. W. DAVIES is Professor of Soviet Economic Studies in the Centre for Russian and East European Studies of the University of Birmingham. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Birmingham and subsequently held a research post at the University of Glasgow. In the course of his research on Soviet industrialisation he has paid five visits to the Soviet Union to study in Moscow and Leningrad libraries. His previous publications include The Development of the Soviet Budgetary System, Science Policy in the USSR (co-author), The Soviet Union (editor), and he collaborated with E. H. Carr on volumes nine and ten of the fourteen-volume A History of Soviet Russia.

• Preface - The Peasant Economy and the Soviet System, 1917-29 - The Grain Collections of 1929 - The Eve of Mass Collectivisation, June-September 1929 - The New Stage of Collectivisation, October 1929-January 5, 1930 - The All-Out Drive, January- February 1930 - Collectivisation in Retreat, March-June 1930 - The Crisis in the Party - The Harvest of 1930 - The Resumption of Collectivisation - The Mechanisation of Agriculture - Conclusions - Tables - Glossary of Russian Terms and Abbreviations used in Text - Abbreviations of Titles of Books and Periodical Publications used in Footnotes - Bibliography - Name Index - Subject Index

R. W. DAVIES is Professor of Soviet Economic Studies in the Centre for Russian and East European Studies of the University of Birmingham. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Birmingham and subsequently held a research post at the University of Glasgow. In the course of his research on Soviet industrialisation he has paid five visits to the Soviet Union to study in Moscow and Leningrad libraries. His previous publications include The Development of the Soviet Budgetary System, Science Policy in the USSR (co-author), The Soviet Union (editor), and he collaborated with E. H. Carr on volumes nine and ten of the fourteen-volume A History of Soviet Russia.

• Preface - The Peasant Economy and the Soviet System, 1917-29 - The Grain Collections of 1929 - The Eve of Mass Collectivisation, June-September 1929 - The New Stage of Collectivisation, October 1929-January 5, 1930 - The All-Out Drive, January- February 1930 - Collectivisation in Retreat, March-June 1930 - The Crisis in the Party - The Harvest of 1930 - The Resumption of Collectivisation - The Mechanisation of Agriculture - Conclusions - Tables - Glossary of Russian Terms and Abbreviations used in Text - Abbreviations of Titles of Books and Periodical Publications used in Footnotes - Bibliography - Name Index - Subject Index

R. W. DAVIES is Professor of Soviet Economic Studies in the Centre for Russian and East European Studies of the University of Birmingham. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Birmingham and subsequently held a research post at the University of Glasgow. In the course of his research on Soviet industrialisation he has paid five visits to the Soviet Union to study in Moscow and Leningrad libraries. His previous publications include The Development of the Soviet Budgetary System, Science Policy in the USSR (co-author), The Soviet Union (editor), and he collaborated with E. H. Carr on volumes nine and ten of the fourteen-volume A History of Soviet Russia.

• Preface - The Peasant Economy and the Soviet System, 1917-29 - The Grain Collections of 1929 - The Eve of Mass Collectivisation, June-September 1929 - The New Stage of Collectivisation, October 1929-January 5, 1930 - The All-Out Drive, January- February 1930 - Collectivisation in Retreat, March-June 1930 - The Crisis in the Party - The Harvest of 1930 - The Resumption of Collectivisation - The Mechanisation of Agriculture - Conclusions - Tables - Glossary of Russian Terms and Abbreviations used in Text - Abbreviations of Titles of Books and Periodical Publications used in Footnotes - Bibliography - Name Index - Subject Index