THE MATERIAL AND MANUFACTURING SPHERE OF THE UKRAINIAN VILLAGE: TASKS OF REFORMING IN HOURS Khrushchev's Thaw
Attempts are being made to reform the Khrushchev leadership of the Ukrainian agricultural sector in the context of a proclaimed policy of a powerful uplift of the agricultural sector in the short term. The ways and methods used to achieve this goal are shown. It was noted that in addition to financial support and reorganization of the structure of management of the material and production sphere of the village, a course was taken to increase the intellectual potential of the management and technological units of the collective farm production and its servicing structures, namely, machine-tractor stations. It is shown that this was planned at the expense of non-agricultural workers and residents of the city. It was found that the course to solve problems of agricultural production at the expense of other sectors of the economy did not justify itself At the same time, it is noted, in the course of its implementation, radical structural and organizational changes have occurred in the industry, the result of which was the abolition of the outdated system of relations between the collective farms and the state. The servicing agricultural artel structures, together with the material base and their employees, were included in the collective farms and became their integral part. At the same time there was a change in the functions of their specialists. Instead of bureaucratic planning and control, they began to implement technological and managerial ones. As a result of such changes, a new professional and industrial unit was formed in the collective farms, and in the countryside - a new social stratum - the production intelligentsia. In essence, this process was a cursory one, as the priority was to increase the productivity of collective farm production in accordance with the increased needs of the state through the elementary quantitative saturation of technological and managerial units of collective farms employees assigned to perform the relevant functions. This testified to the continued underestimation of the agricultural industry and the new management, to treating it as less valuable than other industries. In fact, despite certain quantitative and qualitative shifts, there was a lack of fulfillment of the basic tasks of organizational and economic reform of the material and production sphere of the Ukrainian village, as one of the important components of a powerful uplift of agricultural production.