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Zusatztext 'This useful book will be valuable for all those concerned with agricultural reforms, transition economies, the reaction of the rural population to policies announced in the capital, and developments in Russia and Ukraine in the post-soviet period. It also demonstrates the importance of fieldwork in studying what is actually happening in post-soviet agriculture and rural society.' - Slavonic and East European Review Informationen zum Autor Stephen K. Wegren is Professor of Political Science, Southern Methodist University. He has published widely on the politics and economics of post-communist reform in Russia. Klappentext A dominant approach to peasant behavior has been to emphasize rural resistance to reform broadly! and to the introduction of market forces in particular. This book examines historical and contemporary patterns of rural adaptation in Russia for the purpose of illuminating the ways in which peasants respond to new environmental conditions and stimuli created by reform. The substantive material is drawn from the Stolypin reforms in the pre-Soviet era! collectivization of agriculture during the 1930s in the Soviet era! and then four articles from the post-Soviet era. The articles analyzing peasant responses in the post-Soviet era all draw from field work and survey data collected from rural Russia. These chapters examine the relationship between poverty and rural adaptation! the social origins of private farmers in southern Russia and Ukraine! response patterns by large farms (formerly collective and state farms)! and household adaptation using a standardized set of criteria in three different regions of Russia. In total! the volume is entirely original and presents some of the best research being conducted on rural Russia by well-known experts. Zusammenfassung Bringing together some of the finest scholars on rural Russia, this groundbreaking volume examines peasant behaviour and rural resistance to reform in the post-Soviet era. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. From Communism to Capitalism: Agrarian relations in twentieth century Russia and beyond 2. Reflections on Rural Adaptation at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century: The Stolypin reforms 3. Soviet Peasants and Collectivization! 1930-1939: Resistance and adaptation 4. Poverty and Adaptation in Rural Russia 5. Land Reform and the Social Origins of Private Farmers in Russia and Ukraine 6. Restructuring Postponed? Large Russian farm enterprises 'coping with the market' 7. Household Responses! Regional Diversity! and Contemporary Agrarian Reform in Russia ...
