Agrarian Reform In Russia: The Road From Serfdom
Cambridge University Press
ISBN13:
9781107546233
$38.77
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.
- | Author: Carol S. Leonard
- | Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- | Publication Date: Aug 06, 2015
- | Number of Pages: 420 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Paperback
- | ISBN-10: 1107546230
- | ISBN-13: 9781107546233
- Author:
- Carol S. Leonard
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:
- Aug 06, 2015
- Number of pages:
- 420 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Paperback
- ISBN-10:
- 1107546230
- ISBN-13:
- 9781107546233