Like all facets of daily life, the food that Russian farms grew and
citizens ate-or, in some years, didn't eat-underwent radical shifts
in the century between the Bolshevik Revolution and Putin's
presidency. The modernization of agriculture during this time is
usually understood in terms of advances in farming methods. Susanne
A. Wengle's important interdisciplinary history of Russia's
agriculture and food systems documents far-reaching changes on
farms, along with their effects on ordinary people and for
successive political regimes. Wengle argues that we need to focus
on the political actors who employed and favored particular
agrotechnologies to provide "the good life" for citizens. Each of
the large-scale rural reforms was rooted as much in political
ambitions as in the need to increase crop and meat yields. Attempts
to create the conditions of abundance relied heavily on top-down
programs that nearly always had unexpected, and occasionally
devastating, outcomes. Bringing together a narrative on governance,
production, consumption, nature, and the ensuing vulnerabilities of
the agri-food system, Wengle reveals the intended and unintended
consequences of Russian agricultural policies since 1917.
Ultimately, Black Earth, White Bread is a call for attention to
states' reliance on specific technologies to illuminate
transformations in food systems everywhere.
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