agrarian policy

The main directions (decentralization and centralization) and specific forms of reorganization of agricultural management bodies as an element of the new state agrarian policy in 1953–1964, their practical implementation in the Byelorussian SSR are considered. It is noted that the most significant changes occurred at the district level as the closest to the direct business entities.

The review presents an analysis of V. V. Kondrashin’s textbook, which, on the basis of a large complex of archival and published documentary materials and scientific literature, recreated a panorama of the relationship of the Russian peasantry with the opposing power structures that appeared and functioned in Russia during the Great Russian Revolution – the Bolshevik government and its political opponents that arose during the Civil War, white and other regimes.