Socialised Agriculture Case of USSR Karl-Eugen Wadekin This paper outlines the concrete issues at stake in the reform of Soviet agriculture. It begins with a critique of collectivised farms during the Stalin, Khrushchev and Brezhnev periods, outlining the changes and differences in each. This, in a sense, sums up the situation that Gorbachev has inherited. It then goes on to discuss the task of streamlining the system, intra-farm management, the private plots, etc.