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Problems of national farm industry dependence on imported agricultural components are shown in the article. Conditions for the effective agro-industrial complex operation, capable to provide import substitution are analyzed. Special aspects of both national-based and foreign-based innovations production development are emphasized. Availability of resources and measures to ensure import substitution on the agri-food market are considered. The method for cost-based product price calculation is proposed taking into account fluctuations of the foreign currency. Farmers' views on factors determining the situation in agriculture are presented. To sum it up, potential capacity and conditions providing food import substitution are determined.

The article shows the opposite development trends of the agrarian economy in Russia, divided in paradoxical pairs. Among them: reduced reproductive capacity of agriculture and simultaneous increase of agricultural production efficiency; deterioration of the material and technical and natural base, combined with increase in agricultural production; degradation of the Russian countryside and rural social development, as well as several others. The reasons for these paradoxical phenomena are analyzed.

Practicability of viewing economy not as a mechanism but as an organism is grounded. The concept of "genetic economics" that is considered in time and space is defined. The orders of economic constancy are recommended. "Genetic economics" axiomatic statements are formularized.

Possible scenarios of post-crisis development of Russian agriculture: inertial, intensive-technocratic, natural-innovative, are examined at the article. Dull imitation of the west type of agricultural production development, aimed at large-scale use of chemicals and other factors of intensification, is shown to be inappropriate. The possibility of native agriculture keeping based on technologies close to natural ways of foodstuffs` production is analyzed. The notion of rent income from products manufacture in natural conditions is introduced.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction: Elemental Materialism in Soviet Culture and Society -- 1. Techno-Utopian Visions of Soviet Intellectuals after Stalin -- 2. Time in 1:72 Scale: The Plastic Historicity of Soviet Models -- 3. History in Wood: The Search for Historical Authenticity in North Russia -- 4. When Spaces of Transit Fail Their Designers: Social Antagonisms of Soviet Stairwells and Streets -- 5. The Men of Steel: Repairing and Empowering Soviet Bodies with Iron -- 6. Ordinary and Paranormal: The Soviet Television Set -- Conclusions: Soviet Objects and Socialist Modernity -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index

SUMMARY: Anticipating the publication of archival documents, the article reconstructs the history of the Russian Art Exhibition of 1924–1926 in the United States, presenting it as an element of early Soviet cultural diplomacy. The author emphasizes the instrumental roles of organizers like Igor Grabar, Olga Kameneva, Ivan Sytin, Charles Crane, and Christian Brinton. The study discusses various strategies to present Russian and early Soviet art to the American audience. Central to the narration are the dynamic, often conflicting interactions among the key protagonists of this story and the challenges of representing Soviet Russia on the global stage. Резюме: Предваряя публикацию архивных документов, статья реконструирует историю Выставки русского искусства 1924–1926 годов в США. Выставка в ней представлена как эпизод истории советской культурной дипломатии в ранний период ее существования. Автор акцентирует внимание на ключевой роли организаторов выставки, таких как Игорь Грабарь, Ольга Каменева, Иван Сытин, Чарльз Крейн и Кристиан Бринтон. Кроме того, в статье получают освещение различные подходы к демонстрации российского и раннего советского искусства американской публике. Основное внимание сосредоточено на динамичных, порой противоречивых и конфликтных отношениях между организаторами, а также на анализе разного рода проблем и обстоятельств, связанных с репрезентацией советской России на международной арене.