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Agrarian reform in Russia : the road from serfdom

Leonard, Carol Scott, 1945-

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This book examines the history of reforms and major state interventions affecting Russian agriculture: the abolition of serfdom in 1861, the stolypin reforms, the New Economic Policy (NEP), the collectivization, the Khrushchev reforms, and finally the 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 of their effectiveness in transforming institutions. --Book Jacket.

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Subject: Geschichte 1861-2010. / Since 1861 / Land reform Russia History. / Land reform Soviet Union History. / Land reform Russia (Federation) History. / Agriculture and state Russia History. / Agriculture and state Soviet Union History. / Agriculture and state Russia (Federation) History. / Agriculture and state. / Economic history. / Land reform. / Agrarreform. / Landwirtschaft. / Russia Economic conditions 1861-1917. / Soviet Union Economic conditions. / Russia (Federation) Economic conditions 1991- / Russia. / Russia (Federation) / Soviet Union. / Russland.
• ISBN: 9780521858496, 0521858496, 9781107546233

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HD1333.R9 L46 2011	1	BOOK	BUSINESS