Agroholdings, Technology, and the Political Economy of Russian Agriculture
Journal: Laboratorium Russian Review of Social Research
Year: 2021

This article details the rise of Russian agricultural corporations, known as the agroholdings. These companies have accumulated control of Russia’s most fertile land over the last 20 years and have become the main producers of agricultural commodities and processed food. They are also the driving force of a profound technological transformation of agriculture and food production during this time. A core claim of this article is that the technopolitics of twenty-first-century Russian agriculture