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1 online resource (xiv, 402 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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polychrome |
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Online access with JISC subscription agreement: ACLS Humanities E-Books.
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Part 1. Dilemmas of Agrarian Reform in Russia: 1. Imperial reforms, 1861-1913; 2. The NEP, collectivization, and post-Stalin reforms, 1921-1989; 3. The transition reforms, 1991-2010 -- Part II. Russian Law and Rural Organization, 1861-2010: 4. Property rights and customary law in rural Russia; 5. Rural organization and entrepreneurship -- Part III. Russian Agricultural Performance, 1861-2010: 6. Technology and farming culture; 7. Reform and long-run productivity growth, 1861-2010; Conclusion: the present from the perspective of the past -- Appendices: 1. Construction of total factor productivity for Russian agriculture in the Tsarist Period, 1861-1911; 2. Measures; 3. The yield of arable land (ratio of harvest to arable land); 4. Land/labor ratio, Tsarist Russia, 1913 = roo; 5. Exports and imports, cereals, meat, chicken, selected countries, years (Transition era); 6. Fertilizer use in the post-Khrushchev era, 1970-1990; 7. Agrarian reform: crises and short-run outcomes in Russia, 1861-2010. |
| Summary |
This book examines the history of reforms and major state interventions affecting Russian agriculture: the abolition of serfdom in 1861, the Stolypin reforms, the NEP, the Collectivization, Khrushchev reforms, and finally 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 their effectiveness in transforming institutions. |
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Access restricted to Ryerson students, faculty and staff. CaOTR |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Land reform -- Russia -- History.
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Land reform. |
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Russia. |
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History. |
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Land reform -- Soviet Union -- History.
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Soviet Union. |
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Land reform -- Russia (Federation) -- History.
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Russia (Federation) |
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Agriculture and state -- Russia -- History.
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Agriculture and state. |
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Agriculture and state -- Soviet Union -- History.
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Agriculture and state -- Russia (Federation) -- History.
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Russia -- Economic conditions -- 1861-1917.
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Economic conditions. |
| Chronological Term |
1861-1917 |
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Soviet Union -- Economic conditions.
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Russia (Federation) -- Economic conditions -- 1991-
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1991- |
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Geschichte 1861-2010. |
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Since 1861 |
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Leonard, Carol Scott, 1945- Agrarian reform in Russia. New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011 9780521858496 (DLC) 2009009366 (OCoLC)308198091 |
| ISBN |
9781139010245 (electronic book) |
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1139010247 (electronic book) |
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9781139008099 |
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1139008099 |
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9780521858496 (hardback) |
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0521858496 (hardback) |
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