The current dominant approach to Russian peasant behaviour emphasizes rural resistance to reform in broad terms, and to the introduction of market forces in particular. Bringing together some of the finest scholars on rural Russia, this groundbreaking volume examines this perception with an analysis of both historical and contemporary patterns of rural adaptation in Russia.
Four articles included analyze peasant responses in the post-Soviet era, and focus on:
* the relationship between poverty and rural adaptation * the social origins of private farmers...
The current dominant approach to Russian peasant behaviour emphasizes rural resistance to reform in broad terms, and to the introduction of market ...
Tracing the way in which the agrarian myth has emerged and re-emerged over the past century in ideology shared by populism, post-modernism and the political right, the argument in this book is that at the centre of this discourse about the cultural identity of otherness/difference lies the concept of and innate peasant-ness. In a variety of contextual-specific discursive forms, the old populism of the 1890s and the nationalism and fascism in Europe, America and Asia during the 1920s and 1930s were all informed by the agrarian myth. The post-modern new populism and the new right, both of which...
Tracing the way in which the agrarian myth has emerged and re-emerged over the past century in ideology shared by populism, post-modernism and the pol...
This is a socio-economic study of agriculture and its contribution to livelihoods in Venda, one of the black homelands created in South Africa under apartheid. It is based on a survey of households on the Tshiombo irrigation scheme, a project in central Venda with approximately 600 plot-holders.
This is a socio-economic study of agriculture and its contribution to livelihoods in Venda, one of the black homelands created in South Africa under a...
The Chayanov known to us, until now, has been largely two-dimensional - the author of a fanciful peasant utopia, and the scientist who built a theory of peasant farm organisation around the concept of drudgery, the peasant's daily decision whether or not to trudge out to work in his field. A third Chayanov dimension emerges from the autobiographical material he was forced to write in the interrogation that followed his arrest, in 1930, and in the letters he wrote in the early 1920s when he lived and worked both in England and in the Germany to which thousands of Russia's greatest minds were...
The Chayanov known to us, until now, has been largely two-dimensional - the author of a fanciful peasant utopia, and the scientist who built a theory ...
This is a socio-economic study of agriculture and its contribution to livelihoods in Venda, one of the black "homelands" created in South Africa under apartheid. It is based on a survey of households in the Tshiombo irrigation scheme, a project in central Venda with around 600 plot-holders.
This is a socio-economic study of agriculture and its contribution to livelihoods in Venda, one of the black "homelands" created in South Africa under...
