Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Tables and Figures
- Preface
- Agrarian Reform in Russia
- Introduction
- PART I DILEMMAS OF AGRARIAN REFORM IN RUSSIA
- 1 Imperial Reforms, 1861–1913
- 2 The NEP, Collectivization, and Post-Stalin Reforms, 1921–1989
- 3 The Transition Reforms, 1991–2010
- PART II RUSSIAN LAW AND RURAL ORGANIZATION, 1861–2010
- PART III RUSSIAN AGRICULTURAL PERFORMANCE, 1861–2010
- APPENDICES
- References
- Index
3 - The Transition Reforms, 1991–2010
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 June 2011
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Tables and Figures
- Preface
- Agrarian Reform in Russia
- Introduction
- PART I DILEMMAS OF AGRARIAN REFORM IN RUSSIA
- 1 Imperial Reforms, 1861–1913
- 2 The NEP, Collectivization, and Post-Stalin Reforms, 1921–1989
- 3 The Transition Reforms, 1991–2010
- PART II RUSSIAN LAW AND RURAL ORGANIZATION, 1861–2010
- PART III RUSSIAN AGRICULTURAL PERFORMANCE, 1861–2010
- APPENDICES
- References
- Index
Summary
Simultaneous price and trade liberalization in Russia in 1992 was coordinated with an ambitious agenda of rapid enterprise privatization, embracing the farm sector in 1991. Partly as a consequence of that timing, the transformation of state and collective farms into profit-making corporative entities only gradually got underway as managers confronted a deep and lasting recession. Agriculture gained less than might have been expected by a major devaluation in 1998, which was the impetus for a strong industrial recovery. The transformation in agriculture began slowly in cereals production and then in some livestock sectors. By 2005, on the basis of indicators for 2003, observers found no significant change. By 2010, however, farm indicators from 2007, as represented in Table 3.1, showed finally more powerful structural transformation effects from reform in the early 1990s.
The achievements of Russian agrarian reform as shown in Table 3.1 are not as striking as in the selected EU transition economies, including the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Estonia. However, agriculture has downsized considerably, relative to industry and services, as shown in the table by the sector's share of gross domestic product (GDP)(less than five percent). In 2008, due in part to good weather conditions, gross output rose by an enormous 10.8 percent, or 3.8 percent per capita. There is a continued gap in yields with the advanced countries of western Europe and North America.
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- Agrarian Reform in RussiaThe Road from Serfdom, pp. 85 - 122Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010