Under the editorship of I. M. Volkov. 1976. 279 pp. Circulation 29,000. Price 1 rub. 18 kopecks. The historiography of the Soviet village was supplemented with a new generalizing work. M. L. Bogdenko and I. E. Zelenin, senior researchers at the Institute of Soviet History of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, are known for their monographic works on various periods of the history of state farms .1 This time they published a joint study, which is the first consolidated publication on the history of state farm construction in all the years of Soviet power. This is especially important because the study of the development of state farms lagged significantly behind the study of the history of the collective farm village. The first attempt to create a generalizing historical essay could be successful only if it not only takes into account everything achieved earlier in the development of the problem, but also presents the results of scientific research carried out by the authors during the preparation of the book. They have successfully solved this problem. The structure of the book is based on a well-thought-out scientific periodization, which is the basis for considering such "cross-cutting" issues of the history of state farms as their construction, improvement of management, forms and methods- 1 M. L. Bogdenko. Construction of grain state farms in 1928-1932, Moscow, 1958. Sovkhozy SSSR. 1951-1958. Moscow, 1972: I. E. Zelenin. Zernovye sovkhozy SSSR (1933-1941 gg.) [Grain state farms of the USSR (1933-1941)]. Sovkhozy SSSR (1941-1950). Moscow, 1969; his. State farms in the first decade of Soviet power. 1917-1927. Moscow, 1972. page 148 the formation of the state-farm group of workers, the growth of their creative activity, the results of the economic activity of state farms. The authors show the development and implementation of Lenin's ideas on state farm construction, reveal the main patterns and specifics of each of the stages in the history of state farms, which ... Читать далее