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Russia's Private Farm Movement: Background and Perspectives

Russia's Private Farm Movement: Background and Perspectives FRANK A. DURGIN (Portland, ME, USA) RUSSIA'S PRIVATE FARM MOVEMENT: BACKGRO UND AND PERSPECTIVES* Some three-quarters of a century after private ownership of land had been proclaimed abolished "forever" and the use of hired labor in agriculture out- lawed, and some half-century after the last remaining private farm in Russia had been driven into a collective, the rights to own land, hire labor and oper- ate a private farm not only have been restored, but are being actively pro- moted. Triggered by Gorbachev's surprising proposal in his speech of 25 June 1987 that individual rental farms could make a contribution to the solu- tion of the Former Soviet Union's (FSU) percnnial food problem, privatiza- iion, farmerization and marketization soon became the order of the day. The number of private farms in the FSU grew rapidly and by 1 January 1993 had reached over 600,000. In Russia, the number of private farms on I January 1994 had reached 269,900, and via ownership or lease they used some 5 per- cent of the nation's agricultural land and some 6 percent of its total plow lands. This article intends to examine private farming in Russia. But in an at- tempt to place http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The Soviet and Post-Soviet Review Brill

Russia's Private Farm Movement: Background and Perspectives

The Soviet and Post-Soviet Review , Volume 21 (1): 36 – Jan 1, 1994

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Brill
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Copyright © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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1075-1262
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1876-3324
DOI
10.1163/187633294x00197
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FRANK A. DURGIN (Portland, ME, USA) RUSSIA'S PRIVATE FARM MOVEMENT: BACKGRO UND AND PERSPECTIVES* Some three-quarters of a century after private ownership of land had been proclaimed abolished "forever" and the use of hired labor in agriculture out- lawed, and some half-century after the last remaining private farm in Russia had been driven into a collective, the rights to own land, hire labor and oper- ate a private farm not only have been restored, but are being actively pro- moted. Triggered by Gorbachev's surprising proposal in his speech of 25 June 1987 that individual rental farms could make a contribution to the solu- tion of the Former Soviet Union's (FSU) percnnial food problem, privatiza- iion, farmerization and marketization soon became the order of the day. The number of private farms in the FSU grew rapidly and by 1 January 1993 had reached over 600,000. In Russia, the number of private farms on I January 1994 had reached 269,900, and via ownership or lease they used some 5 per- cent of the nation's agricultural land and some 6 percent of its total plow lands. This article intends to examine private farming in Russia. But in an at- tempt to place

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Published: Jan 1, 1994

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