| Description |
1 online resource (xxvi, 215 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Contents |
Cover -- Contents -- List of Maps, Illustrations, and Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Transliteration -- Note on Sources and Methodology -- Newspapers and Statistics -- Interviews and Ethnographic Research Techniques -- Glossary -- The Post-Soviet Potemkin Village -- Introduction -- The Paradox of Ownership -- Privatization Globally and in the Black Earth -- Alternative Explanations -- Explaining Convergence -- Local Politics and Political Theory -- The Evidence -- The Argument -- 1 Things Fall Apart -- Our Heavy Cross -- "Vikings" and Hutsuls -- Fighting for Every Worker -- No Right to Remain Silent -- Our Daily Bread -- Care for People -- 2 Keeping the Collectives -- Each Will Know He Is an Owner -- One Revolution Is Enough -- With Only My Stamp in My Hand -- You Can't Invite Everyone -- The State Farm Kept All the Certificates for Itself -- Do Not Allow Dissolution -- We're All Among Friends Here -- Whoever Doesn't Have a Shovel, Go and Buy One -- The Land Is Quietly Being Taken from Us -- 3 The Social Origins of Private Farmers -- The Chairman Was Against It -- Serious Slips Were Allowed -- Other Than a Shovel and a Pitchfork, I Have Nothing -- Impossible to Obtain Land through Normal Channels -- Familiar Last Names -- Apply Pressure Where Necessary -- They're Inserting Sticks in the Wheels -- Conclusion -- 4 A Return to Regulation -- Pressure Has Remained -- Supplicants and Justice Seekers -- Honest, Solid People -- Their Legs Cut Out from under Them -- Land Must Work for People, Not for Weeds -- Conclusion -- 5 The Politics of Payment -- Only Enough to Feed the Chickens -- A "Wretched" Payment -- No Salary, No Incentive -- Everything Up Through Burial -- However They Arrange It -- Half Starved and Dressed Almost in Rags -- Conclusion -- 6 The Facade -- The Same Old Collective Farm -- We're Fated to Live Together, Inseparably -- Everything Is Being Cleaned Out -- And Where Will I Steal? -- This Was Done Deliberately -- Conclusion -- Dispossession through Privatization -- Lessons from Post-Socialism -- The Significance of the Facade -- Cows and Dispossession -- Index -- Last Page |
| Summary |
Why does the introduction of private property rights sometimes result in poverty, rather than development? Most analyses of institutional change emphasize the design of formal institutions, but this study of land privatization in the Russia-Ukraine borderlands shows how informal politics at the local level instead can drive outcomes. Local officials in both countries pursued strategies that produced a record of reform, even as they worked behind the scenes to maintain the status quo. The end result was a facade of private ownership: a Potemkin village for the post-Soviet era. Far from creating private property that would bring development to the post-Soviet rural heartland, privatization policy deprived former collective farm members of their few remaining rights and ushered in a new era of state control over land resources. This study draws upon the author's extensive primary research in the Black Earth region conducted over a period of nine years |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Land reform -- Russia (Federation)
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Land reform -- Ukraine
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Right of property -- Russia (Federation)
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Right of property -- Ukraine
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Property.
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Ownership
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ownership.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Real Estate -- General.
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Land reform
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Right of property
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| SUBJECT |
Russia |
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Ukraine |
| Subject |
Russia (Federation)
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Ukraine
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic resource
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780511355776 |
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0511355777 |
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9780521879385 |
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0521879388 |
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9780521709316 |
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0521709318 |
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9780511354151 |
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9780511509940 |
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9780511352997 |
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0511352999 |
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1281153559 |
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9781281153555 |
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9780511355257 |
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9781139133265 |
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0511354738 |
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9780511354731 |
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1107183839 |
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9781107183834 |
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