ABSTRACT
The Soviet Union is now in the midst of the greatest revolution ever known in agriculture. To grasp the full significance of the revolution which is taking place in the Soviet Union the background of Russian history must be viewed. Two centuries of Tartar rule had left Russia the most backward country in Europe. The serfs had been reduced almost to slavery and could be sold even apart from the land. Repeated peasant uprisings testified to their desperate misery. Russian agriculture was in an even worse state than that of the rest of the world. Covering a period of some three years their battle with the peasants was fought and won. Not all their difficulties and problems had been surmounted but the worst was now over. Among the individual peasants the average farm has now become less than nine acres. Posters and charts of the Five Year Plan held aloft the new goals or achievements.
