Agrarian reform in Russia [electronic resource] : the road from serfdom / Carol S. Leonard.

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...

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Main Author: Leonard, Carol S. (Carol Scott), 1945- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011.
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Table of 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.