Agrarian Reform in Russia - The Road from Serfdom (Hardcover)

This book examines the history of reforms and major state interventions affecting Russian agriculture: the abolition of serfdom in 1861, the Stolypin reforms, the NEP, the Collectivization, Khrushchev reforms, and finally farm enterprise privatization in the early 1990s. It shows a pattern emerging from a political imperative in imperial, Soviet, and post-Soviet regimes, and it describes how these reforms were justified in the name of the national interest during severe crises - rapid inflation, military defeat, mass strikes, rural unrest, and/or political turmoil. It looks at the consequences of adversity in the economic environment for rural behavior after reform and at long-run trends. It has chapters on property rights, rural organization, and technological change. It provides a new database for measuring agricultural productivity from 1861 to 1913 and updates these estimates to the present. This book is a study of the policies aimed at reorganizing rural production and their effectiveness in transforming institutions.

General

Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	December 2010
First published:	2011
Authors:	Carol S Leonard (Dr)
Dimensions:	234 x 159 x 35mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	416
ISBN-13:	978-0-521-85849-6
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social groups & communities > Rural communities Books > Business & Economics > Industry & industrial studies > Primary industries > Agriculture & related industries Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political control & freedoms > Human rights > Land rights
LSN:	0-521-85849-6
Barcode:	9780521858496

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