Privatizing the Land: Rural Political Economy in Post-Communist and Socialist Societies

by Ivan Szelenyi (Editor)

Overview

Privatizing the Land provides an overview of reforms in the state socialist agrarian systems, especially during the 1970s and 1980s 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415182041
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	06/04/1998
Series:	Routledge Studies of Societies in Transition
Pages:	292
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

List of figures, List of tables, List of contributors, Preface, 1 Introduction: a theoretical framework, Part I Reforms: failures and successes, Part II ‘Revolutions’: the collapse and restructuring of agrarian systems during the post-communist crisis of transformation, Index

Editorial Reviews

‘Ivan Szelenyi is one of the best sociologists of the socialist period in Eastern Europe.' - Nigel Swain, Economics Systems

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