New Perspectives on Spatial Patterns of Agrarian Reform: A Comparison of Two Russian Oblasts
- 1 October 1994
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Post-Soviet Geography
- Vol. 35 (8) , 455-481
- https://doi.org/10.1080/10605851.1994.10640969
Abstract
The author, based on field work, interviews, and examination of local and regional literature and official statistical sources, compares the experience in agrarian reform in two disparate locations—KostToma Oblast, northeast of Moscow in the Noncher-nozem Region, and Rostov Oblast on Russia's Black Sea littoral in the fertile Chernozem (Black Earth) region. It examines both the reorganization of state and collective farms and the establishment of private peasant farms in the two oblasts, with particular emphasis on the latter. The sections on private farms represent an initial attempt, based on in-depth information for a limited sample population, to garner insights, at the rayon level, into factors that may be influencing regional variations in the number, size, and location of private farms across the Russian countryside. 2 maps, 6 tables, 53 references.Keywords
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