WI Lenin dies circa August 1917

Karelian

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I think the later as some farmers only had one strip of land! Plus a tint of industrialization by getting factories to produce tractors to hand out to the farmers then create new factories to enable employment.
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A collectively owned and maintained pool of tractors and similar vehicles for more mechanized agriculture sounds like something that a SR-dominated Russia would do (Just like Titoist Yugoslavia). Why would handing out land previously owned by nobles and monasteries to village communes instead of kolkhozy be less efficient move in 1920s than it was in 1980s, when 3% of total agricultural land produced over a quarter of gross agricultural output of the whole country!

"A third production entity that survived from Stalin's era was the private plot, known in Soviet jargon as the "personal auxiliary holding." These plots were ideologically unpalatable to the bureaucrats, but they were tolerated as a means for farmers to produce their own food and supplement their incomes. The plots were small (roughly half a hectare) and were assigned one to a household. Peasants were allowed to consume whatever was grown on the plot and sell any surplus--either at the collective farm markets or to state or cooperative marketing agencies. The contribution of private plots to the nation's food supply far exceeded their size. With only 3 percent of total sown area in the 1980s, they produced over a quarter of gross agricultural output, including about 30 percent of meat and milk, 66 percent of potatoes, and 40 percent of fruits, vegetables, and eggs."

http://www.country-data.com/cgi-bin/query/r-12746.html
 

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Karelian said:
A collectively owned and maintained pool of tractors and similar vehicles for more mechanized agriculture sounds like something that a SR-dominated Russia would do (Just like Titoist Yugoslavia). Why would handing out land previously owned by nobles and monasteries to village communes instead of kolkhozy be less efficient move in 1920s than it was in 1980s, when 3% of total agricultural land produced over a quarter of gross agricultural output of the whole country!

"A third production entity that survived from Stalin's era was the private plot, known in Soviet jargon as the "personal auxiliary holding." These plots were ideologically unpalatable to the bureaucrats, but they were tolerated as a means for farmers to produce their own food and supplement their incomes. The plots were small (roughly half a hectare) and were assigned one to a household. Peasants were allowed to consume whatever was grown on the plot and sell any surplus--either at the collective farm markets or to state or cooperative marketing agencies. The contribution of private plots to the nation's food supply far exceeded their size. With only 3 percent of total sown area in the 1980s, they produced over a quarter of gross agricultural output, including about 30 percent of meat and milk, 66 percent of potatoes, and 40 percent of fruits, vegetables, and eggs."

http://www.country-data.com/cgi-bin/query/r-12746.html
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I forgot about that part:eek: This might also help with the how much land is owned by one farmer.
 
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