Book Description
Capital intensity in soviet agriculture; The low productivity of soviet agricultural trade; Soviet policies on agriculture, trade, and the sonsumer; Eastern europe; Cross-national analysis.
Author : Ronald A. Francisco
Publisher : Westview Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 10,51 MB
Release : 1980-02-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
Capital intensity in soviet agriculture; The low productivity of soviet agricultural trade; Soviet policies on agriculture, trade, and the sonsumer; Eastern europe; Cross-national analysis.
Author : United States. Department of Agriculture. Economic Research Service. Europe and Soviet Union Branch
Publisher :
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 17,67 MB
Release : 1968
Category : Agriculture and state
ISBN :
Author : Robert Deutsch
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 49,10 MB
Release : 2019-07-11
Category : History
ISBN : 1000301486
The first study in the Western world to compare the relationship between food and politics in the countries of Eastern Europe, this book views the current food revolution as part of the modernization process. Robert Deutsch argues that the communist leaders in the Comecon countries increasingly link political stability and preservation of power to the problem of satisfying consumer demand. He also assesses the various social forces that have brought about the food revolution. The most important is the expanded working class, which is no longer willing to defer consumer demands to a hypothetical communist future. The CMEA countries thus face the dilemma of either gradually liberalizing their economies in order to meet growing consumer demands or resorting to repression. Neither of these options promises a long-term solution for implementing economic policies prescribed by Marxist-Leninist doctrine. Robert Deutsch presents case studies of Hungary, Bulgaria, and the German Democratic Republic as examples of the "relative success" of economic reforms. To a greater or lesser extent, these countries have opted for economic decentralization by liberalizing private ownership and pricing policy and by integrating planning with market-oriented concepts. The author compares this with the economic problems of the Soviet Union, Poland, Romania, and Czechoslovakia. The study is enhanced by an exhaustive bibliography, arranged topically and drawn from the specialized literature in several languages.
Author : Karl Eugen Wädekin
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 19,9 MB
Release : 1982
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780916672409
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Author : Constantin Iordachi
Publisher : Central European University Press
Page : 571 pages
File Size : 46,98 MB
Release : 2014-03-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 615522563X
ÿThis book explores the interrelated campaigns of agricultural collectivization in the USSR and in the communist dictatorships established in Soviet-dominated Eastern Europe. Despite the profound, long-term societal impact of collectivization, the subject has remained relatively underresearched. The volume combines detailed studies of collectivization in individual Eastern European states with issueoriented comparative perspectives at regional level. Based on novel primary sources, it proposes a reappraisal of the theoretical underpinnings and research agenda of studies on collectivization in Eastern Europe.The contributions provide up-to-date overviews of recent research in the field and promote new approaches to the topic, combining historical comparisons with studies of transnational transfers and entanglements.
Author : Csaba Csáki
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 37 pages
File Size : 29,55 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Agricultura - Asia
ISBN :
The former USSR could become self-sufficient in food, but in the medium term will probably remain a net agricultural importer - if it can persuade exporters to extend credit. But Central Eastern European agricultural exports are likely to expand. Central Eastern Europe could become a tougher, more aggressive player in agriculture, principally in the markets for more demanding food products - especially pork, poultry, and fruits and vegetables.
Author : Karl Eugen Wädekin
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 48,62 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780415038706
Selected papers from the 8th International Conference on Soviet and East European Agricultural Affairs held at the U. of California, Berkeley, Aug. 1988. The contributors, all experts in their special fields, provide a comparative description and analysis of farming in the USSR and Eastern Europe. They look at all aspects of farming in the Soviet bloc--political, sociological, physical--and examine the historical, environmental, and social background as well as current policies. No index. Annotation(c) 2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
Author : Joan Sokolovsky
Publisher : Westview Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 36,15 MB
Release : 1990-09-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
Focusing on events in Hungary and Poland from 1948 to 1962, the author claims collectivization can best be shown as an element in state-building for the new regimes of Eastern Europe. The book shows how policy options were constrained by dependence on the USSR and the peasants' political isolation.
Author : K -E Wädekin
Publisher : Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 13,29 MB
Release : 1982
Category : Law
ISBN : 9004636641
Author : Stephen Wegren
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 43,77 MB
Release : 2010-11-23
Category : History
ISBN : 0822977265
Winner, 1999 Edward A. Hewett Book Prize from AAASS A comprehensive, original, and innovative analysis of the social, economic, and political factors affecting contemporary Russian reform, the book is organized around the central question of the role of the state and its effect on the course of Russian agrarian reform. In the wake of the collapse of the USSR, contemporary conventional wisdom holds the the Russian state is "weak." Stephen Wegren feels that the traditional approach to the weak/strong state suffers from measurement and circular logic problems, believing that the Russian state, thought weaker than in its Soviet past, is still relatively stronger than other actors. The state's strength allows it to intervene in the rural sector in ways that other power contender cannot.Specifically, as a measure of state intervention, Wegren analyzes how the state has influenced urban-rural relations, rural-rural relations, and the nonstate (private) agricultural sector. Several dilemmas arose that have complicated successful agrarian reform as a result of the nature of state interventions, how reform policies were defined, and the incentives rhar arose from state-sponsored policies. During contemporary Russian agrarian reform, urban-rural differences have widened, marked by a deterioration in rural standards of living and increased alienation of rural political groups from urban alliances. At the same time, within the rural sector, reform failed to reverse rural egalitarianism. In addition, the nature of state interventions has undermined attempts to create a vibrant, productive private rural sector based on private farming.Wegren's research is based upon extensive field work, interviews, archival documents, and published and unpublished source material conducted over a six-year period, and he demonstrates the link between agrarian reform and the success of overall reform in Russia. This learned and often controversial volume will interest political scientists, policy makers, and scholars and students of contemporary Russia.