ABSTRACT
In defending L. N. Kritsman, the young researchers had paid no heed to that call. Their omission was understandable in early 1928 the demand for such congruence appeared bizarre. This chapter deals with a portrait of the victorious Kritsman group and an assessment of the state of rural inquiry after the controversy had been resolved. In abandoning their traditional interests for new concerns, the Timiriazev professors were effectively conceding that the small, noncapitalist farm would not play the role in Soviet agriculture that they had envisaged for it. This concession brought the rural studies debate to an end. The field was oriented to practice and it was nothing more than a form of "agricultural technics" or "agronomy." The first sign of the Organization-Production scholars' new interest in socialist cultivation occurred in a speech delivered by A. V. Chaianov on March 16, 1928, to the Plenum of the Timiriazev Academy's Institute on Agricultural Economics.
