Sociology and Space, No. 18, 1967.
Original scientific paper
Fifty Years of Soviet Rural Development
Ljudmila V. Tjagunenko
Abstract
The article discusses the achievements of the Soviet authorities in the transformation
of rural life and the expansion of agricultural production over the past
fifty years.
Collectivization has erased the old class structures and opened prospects for
modern large-lscale production. The standards of living of the peasants have gone
up and there have been spectacular results in the cultural advancement of the
rural population (in comparison with the late 19th c., when about 70 per cent of
the rural population was illiterate, there are practically no illiterate people left
today). Growing mechanization, experts, social and health insurance of kolkhoz
members, and increased real incomes is proof that the inherited difference between
the living standards of urban and rural communities in the first country of
socialism is rapidly diminishing.
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118744
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Publication date:
14.12.1967.
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