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Millar George Washington University SENIOR ASSOCIATE EDITOR Ann E. Robertson George Washington University EDITORIAL ASSOCIATE EDITORS BOARD Daniel H. Kaiser Grinnell College Louise McReynolds University of Hawaii Donald J. Raleigh University of North Carolina Nicholas V. Riasanovsky University of California, Berkeley Ronald Grigor Suny University of Chicago ADVISORY BOARD Marianna Tax Choldin University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Gregory L. Freeze Brandeis University Paul R. Gregory University of Houston Lindsey Hughes University College London Paul R. Josephson Colby College Janet L. B. Martin University of Miami Bruce W. Menning U.S. Army Command and Staff College Boris N. Mironov Russian Academy of Science Reginald E. Zelnik University of California, Berkeley ERHv3-ttlpg 10,1.qx4 10/6/03 1:41 PM Page iii ENCYCLOPEDIA OF RUSSIAN HISTORY V OLUME 3: M-R JAMES R. MILLAR, EDITOR IN CHIEF Encyclopedia of Russian History James R. Millar © 2004 by Macmillan Reference USA. 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LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA Encyclopedia of Russian history / James R. Millar, editor in chief. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-02-865693-8 (set hardcover) — ISBN 0-02-865694-6 (v. 1) — ISBN 0-02-865695-4 (v. 2) — ISBN 0-02-865696-2 (v. 3) — ISBN 0-02-865697-0 (v. 4) 1. Russia—History—Encyclopedias. 2. Soviet Union—History—Encyclopedias. 3. Russia (Federation)—History—Encyclopedias. I. Millar, James R., 1936- DK14.E53 2003 947’.003—dc21 2003014389 This title is also available as an e-book. ISBN 0-02-865907-4 (set) Contact your Gale sales representative for ordering information. Printed in the United States of America 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 MACARIUS See MAKARY, METROPOLITAN. MACHINE TRACTOR STATIONS The Machine Tractor Stations (MTS) were budget- financed state organizations established in rural ar- eas of the Soviet Union beginning in 1930. Intended mainly as a mechanism to provide machinery and equipment (including repairs and maintenance) to the kolkhozes (collective farms), they also exerted state control over agriculture. Payment for the ser- vices of the Machine Tractor Stations was made in kind (product) by the farms. The emergence of the MTS was closely tied to the introduction of the col- lective farms and especially the continuing debate over organizational arrangements in the country- side, notably the appropriate scale or size of the col- lective farms. The original model of the Machine Tractor Stations was based upon experimental arrangements of the Shevchenko sovkhoz (state farm) in Ukraine. The Machine Tractor Stations were introduced rapidly. By the end of 1930 there were approximately 150 Machine Tractor Stations controlling approximately 7,000 tractors. By 1933 M there were 2,900 stations controlling approxi- mately 123,000 tractors, roughly 50 percent of all tractors in agriculture, the remaining tractors be- longing to state farms. Overall, the growth of the tractor park was rapid, from some 27,000 units in 1928 to 531,000 units in 1940. The Machine Tractor Stations became the dom- inant mechanism for providing equipment to the kolkhozes. While the stations themselves provided state support to kolkhozes, especially to those pro- ducing grain, the political departments of the MTS (the politotdely), established in 1933, became an im- portant means for exercising political control over the collective farms. This control extended well be- yond the allocation and use of machinery and equipment, and specifically involved the develop- ment of production plans after the introduction of compulsory deliveries in 1933. The MTS was, therefore, an integral part of kolkhoz operations, and conflict often arose between the two organi- zations. The Machine Tractor Stations were abolished in 1958 during the Khrushchev era. However, their abolition and short-term replacement with the Re- pair Tractor Stations (RTS) was in fact a part of a much more significant process of continuing agri- cultural reorganization in the 1950s and thereafter. 883 MAFIA CAPITALISM The first tractors coming off the assembly line at the tractor works in Stalingrad. © HULTON ARCHIVE In addition to changes within farms during the 1950s, there was continuing emphasis on consol- MAFIA CAPITALISM idating farms, converting kolkhozes to sovkhozes, Mafia capitalism is a term that emerged to describe and changing the organizational arrangements Russia’s economic system in the 1990s. While the above the level of the individual farms. In effect, implied parallel goes to the classic protection rack- state control came to be exercised through differ- ets of the Sicilian mafia, the actual Russian prac- ent organizations, for example, the Territorial Pro- tice was different. In order to reflect this, both duction Associations (TPAs). While the machinery scholars and journalists have taken to describing and equipment were dispersed to individual farms, in effect the organizational changes in the agricul- the Russian