Agrarian Reform in Russia - The Road From Serfdom

Informationen zum Autor Dr Carol S. Leonard is a Fellow of St Antony's College, Oxford, and University Lecturer, University of Oxford. She is the author of Reform and Regicide: The Reign of Peter III (1993) and numerous scholarly articles. She is also the editor of Microeconomic Change in Central and Eastern Europe (2002) and the co-editor of Agrarian Organization during Industrialization: Europe, Russia and America in the Nineteenth Century (1989) (with George Grantham). She has also served as the US Treasury economic and budget advisor for agriculture to the Russian Ministry of Finance and as a consultant for the Harvard Institute for International Development Macroeconomic Unit in Kyiv, Ukraine, and the National Bank of Kazakhstan. She has taught public sector economics at the St Petersburg School of Management and the economics of science and technology for the graduate program in management and innovation at the Eurasian National University in Astana. Klappentext This book on Russia examines historical reforms and interventions affecting agriculture and assesses their impact on the rural economy. Zusammenfassung This book on Russia examines the history of reforms and state interventions affecting agriculture. It looks at the reform process in a crisis and analyzes the short-run effects of economic adversity. It also examines agricultural production and rural institutions in the long run from 1861 to the present. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I. Dilemmas of Agrarian Reform in Russia: 1. Imperial reform, 1861-1913; 2. The NEP and Soviet era reforms, 1921-89; 3. Transition agrarian reform, 1991-2008; Part II. Russian Law and Rural Organization, 1861-2008: 4. Property rights reform; 5. Rural organization and entrepreneurship; Part. III. Russian Agricultural Performance, 1861-2008: 6. Technology and farming culture; 7. The productivity of Russian agriculture; Conclusion; Appendices.

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• Authors: Carol S. Leonard, Carol S. (Dr Leonard, Leonard Carol S.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 06.08.2015
• EAN: 9781107546233
• ISBN: 978-1-107-54623-3
• No. of pages: 420
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, Russia, European History, HISTORY / Europe / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic History, 20th Century, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Economic history, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, HISTORY / Russia / General, HISTORY / Russia / Imperial