Farmer Threat - The Political Economy of Agrarian Reform in Postsoviet Russia

List of contents

Introduction -- The Political Economy of Agriculture and Food Supplies -- Russian Agriculture Between Plan and Market -- The Food Problem in the Republics of the Former USSR -- The Farms’ Revolt and Grain Shortages in 1991 -- Russian Food Supplies in 1992 -- The Post-Soviet Agrarian Reforms -- The Return of Individual Farming in Russia -- Stolypin Is Risen! The Ideology of Agrarian Reform in Contemporary Russia -- Political Institutions and Agrarian Reform in Russia -- A Fieldwork-Based Appraisal of Individual Peasant Farming in Russia -- The Agrarian Reforms and Russia’s Future -- Agrarian Interests and the Politics of Reform in Post-Soviet Russia

About the author

Don Van Atta is a Research Associate at the Center on East-West Trade, Investment and Communications, Duke University. His articles have appeared in World Politics, Soviet Economy and Problems of Communism.

Summary

This volume examines the agrarian crisis, primarily in Russia but also in other states of former USSR, from a variety of perspectives and disciplines, surveying the context of agrarian reforms in recent years and examining the specifics of individual farming development in post-Soviet Russia.

Product details

• Authors: Werner Hahn, Bill Liefert, David A J Macey, David a J Liefert Macey, Don Van Atta, Donald Van Atta, Donald Macey Van Atta
• Assisted by: Don Van Atta (Editor), Donald Van Atta (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2020
• EAN: 9780367292096
• ISBN: 978-0-367-29209-6
• No. of pages: 221
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; History, HISTORY / General