Land Reform in Russia: Institutional Design and Behavioral Responses
Stephen K. Wegren
Abstract
This book presents an account of Russia's land reform initiatives from the late 1980s to today. In Russia, a country controlling more land than any other nation, land ownership is central to structures of power, class division, and agricultural production. The aim of Russian land reform for the past thirty years—to undo the collectivization of the Soviet era and encourage public ownership—has been largely unsuccessful. To understand this failure, this book examines contemporary land reform policies in terms of legislation, institutional structure, and human behavior. Using extensive survey dat ... More
This book presents an account of Russia's land reform initiatives from the late 1980s to today. In Russia, a country controlling more land than any other nation, land ownership is central to structures of power, class division, and agricultural production. The aim of Russian land reform for the past thirty years—to undo the collectivization of the Soviet era and encourage public ownership—has been largely unsuccessful. To understand this failure, this book examines contemporary land reform policies in terms of legislation, institutional structure, and human behavior. Using extensive survey data, it analyzes household behaviors in regard to land ownership and usage based on socioeconomic status, family size, demographic distribution, and regional differences.
Keywords:
Russia,
land reform,
land ownership,
class division,
agricultural production,
collectivization,
public ownership,
household behaviors,
socioeconomic status,
family size
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2009 |
Print ISBN-13: 9780300150971 |
| Published to Yale Scholarship Online: October 2013 |
DOI:10.12987/yale/9780300150971.001.0001 |
