num_pages: 416
description: The work of A.V. Chayanov is today drawing more attention among Western scholars than ever before. Largely ignored in his native Russia because they differed from Marxist-Leninist theory and neglected in the West for more than forty years Chayanovs sophisticated theories were at last published in English in 1966. That trenchant is reprinted in this Wisconsin paperback edition which includes a new introduction by the sociologist Teodor Shanin of the University of Manchester one of the worlds leading Chayanov scholars. The Wisconsin edition will be essential reading for political scientists anthropologists and all whose interests include peasant studies Third World development and womens studies.
language: English
title: The Theory of Peasant Economy
publisher: University of Wisconsin Press