Bread and autocracy : food, politics, and security in Putin's Russia / Janetta Azarieva, Yitzhak M. Brudny, and Eugene Finkel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Azarieva, Janetta, author.

Brudny, Yitzhak M., author.

Finkel, Evgeny, 1978- author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Food security--Russia (Federation).

Food security.

Grain trade--Russia (Federation).

Grain trade.

Russia (Federation)--Politics and government.

Russia (Federation).

Russia (Federation)--Foreign relations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (186 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2023.

Summary:

In less than twenty years, Putin's Russia moved from heavily relying on imports to feed the population to being one of the world's leading food exporters. The authors provide a comprehensive analysis of this transformation, as well as its causes and consequences for Russia's domestic politics and foreign policy. They argue that Russia's food independence agenda is an outcome of a deliberate, decades-long policy to better prepare the country for a confrontation with the West. Moreover, they show that for the Kremlin, nutritional self-sufficiency and domestic food production is a crucial pillar of state security and regime survival.

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2023.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on August 31, 2023).

Other Format:

Print version: Azarieva, Janetta Bread and Autocracy

ISBN:

0-19-768440-8

0-19-768438-6