| Abstract: | Many centuries of mankind's history and modern world practice teach us that no civilization in any country can develop in full measure and exist without a firm rear guard tyl] in the form of a viable countryside providing a reliable food front. It is highly regrettable that the present state of our society confirms this truism. As repeatedly emphasized at congresses of people's deputies and sessions of the USSR Supreme Soviet not only by rank-and-file deputies but also by the country's principal leaders—work superintendents proraby] of perestroika— roughly 70 percent of the realization of all the tasks of perestroika (political, economic, and social) hinges on the existing state of the food supply and on the agrarian sector as a whole. |
