This volume is an outgrowth of the meeting on the 1976–80 plans for agriculture in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe at the fall 1976. It analyses the new five-year plans raising a serious question as to whether the nations involved can meet their ambitious goals.
"Roy D. Laird, professor of political science and Slavic and Soviet area studies at the University of Kansas, is founder of the continuing Conference on Soviet and East European Agricultural and Peasant Affairs.
Joseph Hajda is associate professor of political science, Kansas State University, and a research political scientist with the Kansas Agricultural Experiment Station.
Betty A. Laird is an independent research analyst specializing in rural affairs and Soviet agriculture."