Rural reform in post-Soviet Russia
By: edited by David J. O'Brien and Stephen K. Wegren
Contributors: O'Brien, David J; Wegren, Stephen K., 1956-
Publisher: Woodrow Wilson Center Press; The Johns Hopkins University Press [distributor]
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Washington, D.C; Baltimore, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 430
Subjects: Land reform -- Russia (Federation); Rural development -- Russia (Federation); Rural renewal -- Russia (Federation); Agriculture -- Economic aspects -- Russia (Federation)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: Introduction, adaptation and change : old problems, new approaches / Stephen K. Wegren and David J. O'Brien; title: Adaptation of Russian agriculture to a market economy. Entrepreneurship and the Siberian peasant commune in late imperial Russia / Igor V. Volgine. The impact of land reform on the rural population / Zvi Lerman. Spatial contrasts and the potential for agricultural revival / Grigory Ioffe and Tatyana Nefedova. Change in land relations : the Russian land market / Stephen K. Wegren and Vladimir R. Belen'kiy. Rural household behavior, 1991-2001 / Valeri V. Patsiorkovski; title: Sources and nature of opposition to change. The cultural dimension : social organization and the metaphysics of exchange / Margaret L. Paxson. Contemporary agrarian reforms in a Russian historical context / David A.J. Macey. Human capital and income inequality / Dennis J. Donahue. Communal coherence and barriers to reform / Liesl L. Gambold Miller. The ethnic dimension of adaptation and change / Christopher Marsh and James W. Warhola. What turns the kolkhoz into a firm? : regional policies and the elasticity of budget constraint / Maria Amelina. Reorganization and its discontents : a case study in Voronezh Oblast / Jessica Allina-Pisano; title: Household and village adaptation to change. Adapting to neglect : the Russian peasant in the 1990s / Ethel Dunn. Entrepreneurial adaptations of rural households : production, sales, and income / David J. O'Brien. Adaptation strategies of agricultural enterprises during transformation / Zemfira Kalugina. How much does informal support matter? : the effect of personal networks on subjective evaluation of life / Larry D. Dershem; title: Conclusion. Where do we go from here? : building sustainable rural communities / David J. O'Brien and Stephen K. Wegren