ABSTRACT
The summer of 1936 brought bad news—a poor grain harvest and a damaged potato crop. The bad harvest, however, was only a prelude to the food shortage to come. 1 After delivering grain to the state and storing seed, the kolkhozy had almost nothing left for food. The maximum payment in kind for one workday unit in the affected regions did not exceed one to one and one-half kilograms of grain. Many kolkhozy restricted their members to three to six hundred grams each or even one to two hundred grams per workday. 2 Cash incomes were also insignificant—thirteen to fifty kopecks per workday. * Peasant stockpiles disappeared by the winter of 1936–37.
