Socio-Economic Development of the Collective Farms of Kazakhstan in the Post-War Period (1946 – 1953)

Abstract

The author in the article studies the features of the socio-economic development ofthe collective farms of Kazakhstan in the post-war period. The post-war decade was difficult for the collective farms and the peasantry.The collective farms were facedwith urgent problems of improving the culture ofagriculture, supplying irrigation water, preserving social livestock, and also providing labor. Despite the crisis situation in the agrarian sector,the state continued to alienate a significant part of agricultural products from the collective farms, obligatory grain procurements weremaintained. The solution of agriculturaldevelopment issues was traditionally carried out within the framework of the command and administrativeleadership, without using the principles of economic incentives. The implementation of a number of agrarian reforms to enlarge the collective farms only helped to restore the pre-war level ofproduction. The restoration of agriculture led only to a slight improvementin the socio-economic situation of the collective farmers, and made it possible to solve the problem of supplying the city with food.