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Privatizing the land : rural political economy in post-communist societies / edited by Ivan Szelenyi.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Routledge studies of societies in transition.
- Routledge studies of societies in transition
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Agriculture--Economic aspects--Case studies.
- Agriculture.
- Agriculture--Economic aspects--Communist countries.
- Agriculture and state--Communist countries.
- Agriculture and state.
- Land reform--Case studies.
- Land reform.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (293 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Routledge, 1998.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Privatizing the Land provides an overview of reforms in the state socialist agrarian systems, especially during the 1970's and 1980's in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. Using empirical evidence, the contributors provide a balanced assessment of how agrarian economies performed in different communist countries. The Soviet and Eastern European experience is contrasted with reforms in China, Vietnam and Cuba to provide the first comprehensive account of agricultural restructuring after the collapse of communism in Europe and Asia.
- Contents:
- Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of figures; List of tables; List of contributors; Preface; Introduction: a theoretical framework; The Hungarian agricultural 'miracle' and the limits of socialist reforms; The alchemy of reform: Bulgarian agriculture in the 1980's; Cuba: the reluctant reformer; Agrarian change in contemporary rural China; After collectivization: continuity and change in rural China; Agrarian Thermidor: state, decollectivization, and the peasant question in Vietnam
- The treadmill of socialist reforms and the failures of post-communist 'revolutions' in Russian agriculture: is there an alternative? The price of privatization: the post-communist transformational crisis of the Hungarian agrarian system; Writing a new song: path dependency and state policy in reforming Bulgarian agriculture; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p.268-270).
- ISBN:
- 1-134-67469-4
- 1-134-67470-8
- 1-280-19906-7
- 0-203-16132-7
- 9780203161326
- OCLC:
- 475876429
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