Vestnik of Samara University. History, pedagogics, philologyVestnik of Samara University. History, pedagogics, philology2542-04452712-8946Samara National Research University898910.18287/2542-0445-2021-27-3-30-35Research ArticlePHENOMENON OF AGRARIAN DEVELOPMENT OF THE USSR: SPECIFICITY OF SCIENTIFIC DISCOURSESukhovaO. A.<p>Doctor of Historical Sciences, professor, dean of the Faculty of History and Philology of V.G. Belinsky Institute of Teacher Education</p>savtemp@yandex.ruhttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-0658-736XYagovO. V.<p>Doctor of Historical Sciences, professor, Acting Deputy Chairman of the Government of the Penza Region</p>yagovdom@mail.ruhttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-2053-2533Government of the Penza Region2611202127330350508202105082021Copyright © 2021, Sukhova O.A., Yagov O.V.2021<p>The purpose of the article is to analyze conceptual approaches in understanding the process of implementing agrarian policy in the USSR in the period 19221991. The research strategies that have developed in modern Russian historiography in recent decades and reveal the content of radical transformation of the agrarian system in the USSR are examined in this article. An assessment of comparability (the possibility of conducting a comparative analysis) of various methodological approaches and criteria for constructing concepts is described. The theses about the preservation or break of the historical continuity in the choice of the civilizational perspective, as well as on the methods and means of achieving the goal were recognized as key. It is concluded that it is necessary to move to the level of interdisciplinary and methodological synthesis as a necessary condition for explaining the civilizational mission of the Soviet project and national specifics in the context of world history. 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