ABSTRACT
The Organization-Production approach to regional studies dated from 1910, when A. N. Chelintsev first expressed dissatisfaction with the traditional basis of classifying peasant farms. In the fifteen years the dominated the study of agricultural economics, the Organization-Production scholars produced a dazzling array of research projects. The idea of using the budget study to explore the intricacies of farm organization was first suggested in 1910 by K. A. Matseevich in a report delivered to the Ekaterinoslav Agronomical Congress. To the proposition that farm production varied in accordance with demography A. V. Chaianov felt able to add the hypothesis that farm structure was determined by family composition. The Organization-Production scholars were aware of the inefficiency of Russian agriculture. The virtues of vertical cooperation were first presented in a 1919 study by Chaianov entitled Osnovnye idei i formy organizatsii krest'ianskoi kooperatsii.
