The Farmer Threat: The Political Economy Of Agrarian Reform In Post-Soviet Russia

by David A J Macey, Donald Van Atta (Editor), Bill Liefert, Werner Hahn

Overview

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

ISBN-13:	9781000301373
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	01/16/2020
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	222
File size:	3 MB

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.

Table 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