Agrarian Reform in Russia

Dr Carol S. Leonard is a Fellow of St Antony's College, Oxford, and University Lecturer, University of Oxford. She is the author of Reform and Regicide: The Reign of Peter III (1993) and numerous scholarly articles. She is also the editor of Microeconomic Change in Central and Eastern Europe (2002) and the co-editor of Agrarian Organization during Industrialization: Europe, Russia and America in the Nineteenth Century (1989) (with George Grantham). She has also served as the US Treasury economic and budget advisor for agriculture to the Russian Ministry of Finance and as a consultant for the Harvard Institute for International Development Macroeconomic Unit in Kyiv, Ukraine, and the National Bank of Kazakhstan. She has taught public sector economics at the St Petersburg School of Management and the economics of science and technology for the graduate program in management and innovation at the Eurasian National University in Astana.

• Part I. Dilemmas of Agrarian Reform in Russia: 1. Imperial reform, 1861–1913; 2. The NEP and Soviet era reforms, 1921–89; 3. Transition agrarian reform, 1991–2008; Part II. Russian Law and Rural Organization, 1861–2008: 4. Property rights reform; 5. Rural organization and entrepreneurship; Part. III. Russian Agricultural Performance, 1861–2008: 6. Technology and farming culture; 7. The productivity of Russian agriculture; Conclusion; Appendices.

'This book is rich and informative, placing agrarian reforms in a full macroeconomic context and allowing them to be understood as part of the history of Russian transitions. This is a must-read.' Brigitte Granville, Queen Mary, University of London