Agricultural section of the State commission for electrification of Russia

The author examines the results of the work of the agricultural section of the State Commission for Electrification of Russia (GOELRO) presented in the report to the VIII All-Russian Congress of Soviets in 1920, restores the personal composition of the section and its members’ contribution to elaboration of the project. The methodological basis of the work is the concept of technological revolutions by K. Perez, applied to the analysis of the problem of the relationship between science and government in 1918-1920.