Privatizing the Land: Rural Political Economy in Post-Communist and Socialist Societies (Routledge Studies of Societies in Transition, 8)

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
List of figures......Page 8
List of tables......Page 9
List of contributors......Page 12
Preface......Page 14
Introduction: a theoretical framework......Page 18
The Hungarian agricultural 'miracle' and the limits of socialist reforms......Page 38
The alchemy of reform: Bulgarian agriculture in the 1980s......Page 60
Cuba: the reluctant reformer......Page 79
Agrarian change in contemporary rural China......Page 109
After collectivization: continuity and change in rural China......Page 142
Agrarian Thermidor: state, decollectivization, and the peasant question in Vietnam......Page 166
The treadmill of socialist reforms and the failures of post-communist 'revolutions' in Russian agriculture: is there an alternative?......Page 208
The price of privatization: the post-communist transformational crisis of the Hungarian agrarian system......Page 231
Writing a new song: path dependency and state policy in reforming Bulgarian agriculture......Page 262
Index......Page 288